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eyelet-hole, n.|ˈaɪlɪtˌhəʊl|
Forms: 6 ilet-, 6–7 oylet-, 6–9 eylet-, 7 eylot-, ilot-, oilet-, 7–8 ey(e)lid-, 8 eilet-, 9 oilete-, 7– eyelet-.
[f. eyelet n. + hole.]
1. = eyelet 1 a; also a hole for inserting a metal eyelet (see eyelet 1 b).
1497Naval Accts. Hen. VII (1896) 334 Makyng of olyett-hooles with other necessaries for the seid sayles. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 573 A Brigandine made of many folds of Canvas with Oylet-holes. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 184/2 The thong must lye..on the rupture, which must on both his sydes have 2 eyletholes. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. vii. 31 The eylot holes of the saile. 1658A. Fox tr. Wurtz' Surg. ii. xxiv. 144 Splinters made..with fitting fillets and bands, on which there are small eylid holes. 1743Zollman in Phil. Trans. XLII. 365 A sort of Boat of Turkey Leather..with..Eilet-holes for receiving Hooks. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 335 The reef-lines next..Through eyelet-holes..were reeved. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph., Downing Street 45 This poor tailor's-bodkin, hardly adequate to bore an eylet-hole. 1861Pearson Early & Mid. Ages Eng. 206 Wool and flax, with silk for the lappets and the eyelet holes, were the common materials.
transf.1599Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 132 Twill be a good while ere you wish your skin full of ilet holes. 1634Ford P. Warbeck ii. iii, Or let my skin be punch'd full of oylet-holes with the bodkin of derision.
2. a. A small hole for the purpose of observation. b. A hole or slit for the discharge of missiles.
a.1797–1803Foster in Life & Corr. 1846 I. 178 An eyelet-hole, through which I fancied visions of entrancing beauty. 1848W. H. Ainsworth Lanc. Witches i. x, Nor was she long in discovering a small eyelet-hole in the carving which commanded the room. 1869Latest News 3 Oct. 15 Scarcely any of the helmets have eyeletholes, but the viser was in general left partly open.
b.1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 606 Embrasures for guns and eyelet holes for musketry. 1879Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 260 In a fortification external windows must be wholly avoided or reduced to mere eyelet-holes.
3. nonce-use = eyehole a.
a1845Hood Jack Hall xix, Death..gave a wink, As well as eyelet holes can blink.
Hence ˈeyelet-hole v., (a) intr. to make eyelet-holes; (b) trans., to make eyelet-holes in; to pierce through and through; to riddle. ˈeyelet-holed ppl. a., furnished with eyelet-holes. ˈeyelet-ˌholing vbl. n.
1747Gentl. Mag. Feb. 71 These lovers are to eylet-hole one another in Miss Biddy's presence. 1590Barwick Disc. Manuall Weapons 21 Ilet holed dublets very easie. 1845Dickens Chimes 63, I introduced pinking and eyelet-holeing among the men. |