eyeholen.
/ˈʌɪhəʊl/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌhoʊl/ 1. = eye socket n. at eye n.1 Compounds 4.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > socket of eye
eyethirleOE
ringboneOE
eye-pita1275
pita1275
orbit?a1425
eye-dolpa1522
orbitant?1541
eyehole1572
eyebone1598
socket1601
eye socket1661
eyelet hole1827
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Eye hole, the place where the eye lyeth, or the holowe of the eye.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. lxxxviii. 227 Let their eyes rot in their eye-holes, who will not receive Him home again.
1658 E. Phillips Myst. Love & Eloquence 100 Those eye-holes, if thy eyes were out, would serve as well for Sawcers.
1767 A. Shackleford Mod. Art Cookery Improved 52 Pour your minced meat into your dish, and lay your head upon it; put a bit of the fried brains into each eye hole.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 227 I saw a mighty skeleton..Its eye-holes held two emeralds bright.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 52 Een-holes, the eye-sockets.
1921 R. A. S. Macalister Text-bk. European Archæol. I. v. 180 The vertical outline, with its brutally low forehead and the great ridges over the eye-holes, is certainly more like that of an ape's skull.
1997 S. King Wizard & Glass vi. 273 Around his neck..he wore a bird's skull... It was hung on a chain that ran through the eyeholes.
2. A hole for looking through, esp. in a mask or other covering for the face.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > hole or window
oillet1333
tooting-holea1382
tote-hole1561
peepholea1570
eyehole1655
eyelet1762
eyelet hole1774
eye-loop1803
Judas hole1858
peek-hole1867
oillet pane1873
squint1891
observation window1897
viewport1942
port1949
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > for looking through
oillet1333
loop1393
sight-hole1559
tote-hole1561
peepholea1570
loophole1591
eyehole1655
grille1686
slit17..
eyelet1762
eyelet hole1774
spying-hole1791
eye-loop1803
squint1839
hagioscope1840
Judas hole1858
peek-hole1867
oillet pane1873
spy-hole1888
squint1891
viewport1942
1655 W. Rider Twins ii. 11 They keep their snowts from dust with a black Cipress; A Maskes too open, the dust would flye in at the eye-holes.
a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 480 Lord Brooke..was..shot with a musquet ball through the eye-hole of his helmet.
1771 W. Ludlam Direct. Use of Hadley's Quadrant 10 This telescope is..furnished with smoaked glasses in a brass frame which slides across the eye hole.
1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 270 As if I had been looking at some gorgeous spectacle through the eye-hole of a rareeshow-box.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxx. 406 A small eye-hole..enabled the in-dwellers to peep out.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. May 755/1 A burka with netted eyeholes.
1963 M. Bourke-White Portrait of Myself xxii. 255 Pillowcases cut with eyeholes were tied over their heads, which made them look frighteningly like members of the Ku Klux Klan.
2012 Luton on Sunday (Nexis) 13 Mar. The offender..was wearing a mask with two eyeholes and a hole for the mouth cut into it.
3. Originally English regional (northern and midlands). A recess on a potato in which a bud forms. Cf. eye n.1 10b(a).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > excrescence, bud, or fruit
eye?1440
potato apple1663
potato eye1733
eyehole1782
potato bean1805
potato ball1817
seed ball1821
1782 W. Raley Treat. Managem. Potatoes iii. 29 Others..pare the Potatoes, and cut the parings into as many sets as there are eye-holes in them.
1845 New Sporting Mag. Dec. 363 A potato was shown me in every stage of consumption; first with a mould at the eye-holes, next ejecting a fluid, then becoming black.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) 116 Skerries is wasty taters, they'n getten sich deep eye-holes.
1918 Amer. Cookery May 774/2 Wash and scrub them [sc. potatoes] thoroughly, pick out any green eye-holes.
1946 R. Knappett Pullet on Midden v. 33 The young sprits..grow from the eye-holes which are all in the nose of the potato.
2011 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 24 Sept. 1 Each potato was individually inspected and ‘all the eye holes were dug out, for if we happened to miss one we were sure to get a clout.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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