单词 | oillet |
释义 | oilletn. Now archaic and historical. 1. An aperture or loophole for observation, esp. in a wall; = eyelet n. 3. Now (Architecture): a round opening at the end of an arrow-slit (historical). ΘΚΠ 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 1333 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) vi. 113 [40 pieces of Caen stone for] oyletz, [not worked]. 1383–4 in R. E. G. Kirk Acct. Abingdon Abbey (1892) 46 Solut' Symoni vitreario pro oyletus trium fenestrarum claustri xxxvs. iij d. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 6451 (MED) Troyens..dide her besynes In her diffence, and made hem plounge lowe With caste of quarel..Þoruȝ olietis. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 363 Oylet, holy yn a walle. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xiv. 630 Thorwh the Oylettes of his helm. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 65 Diverting themselves..at the anxious faces they saw..through the oilets [Fr. soupiraux] of the tower. 1796 Archaeologia 12 147 The parapet often had the merlons pierced with long chinks ending in round holes, called oeillets. 1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. vi. 234 A good battlement, with oillets. 1887 D. Macgibbon & T. Ross Castellated & Domest. Archit. Scotl. II. 378 Lighted with narrow loops..with top and bottom oylets. 1992 C. Coulson in C. Harper-Bill & R. Harvey Medieval Knighthood IV 81 Fronts are thicker, with the usual slight chamfering of the exterior arrises (of slit and oillet). a. A small round hole worked in cloth for the purpose of fastening, etc.; = eyelet n. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated > worked in cloth, etc. oilleta1382 oillet-hole1497 py1553 eyelet1590 eyelet hole1599 pie-hole1737 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxvi. 5 Þe cortyne schall haue fyfty oiletis in eyþer party so sett inne þat oilete may comme aȝeyns anoþer. a1425 Direct. Laces in B. Rowland Chaucer & Middle Eng. Stud. in Honour R. H. Robbins (1974) 102 A brode lace wt cros and olyet..A round lace wyþ cros and olyet. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 363 Olyet made yn a clothe, for sperynge. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 23 Drawing a rope thorow a blocke or oylet to runne vp and down. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 60 Olyet, an eylet-hole. b. Scottish. A stud for armour. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1507 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 254 For 1 stuthes with ruffis callit ulȝeatis for the kingis panses and mailȝeis, weyand v unce j quartar. 3. An eye of a plant. Cf. eyelet n. 2. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [noun] burgeoninga1340 bud1398 burging1398 burgeona1400 tendron14.. buttona1425 pumple1523 oillet1574 dodkin1578 pimple1582 eyelet1600 knot1601 eye1618 budleta1864 button bud1869 break1933 1574 T. Hill Bk. Art of Planting (rev. ed.) 86 in Profitable Arte of Gardening (rev. ed.) Often..a man shall finde of oylets or eyes hard by the olde slender wood. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 434 Prouided alwaies that the œlets stand 3 foot asunder. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxi. iv. 84 They use little oilets and shoots from the root. 1908 M. J. Cawein Poems III. 4 And the germs, deep down in darkness rooted, Bubbled green from all thy million oilets. CompoundsΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated > worked in cloth, etc. oilleta1382 oillet-hole1497 py1553 eyelet1590 eyelet hole1599 pie-hole1737 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 334 Makyng of olyett-hooles with other necessaries for the seid sayles. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 740 A brigandine made of many foldes of canuas with oylet holes. 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. L4 Horace had not his face puncht full of Oylet-holes, like the couer of a warming-pan. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 91 A Waste-coat quilted with Cotton and set thick with Oilet-holes. 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves II. xv. 62 I can't guess, (replied the squire) if it bean't that mai hoole carcase is drilled into oilet hools. 1864 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxx, in Monthly Packet July 36 The collar worked with oylet-holes. ΘΚΠ 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 1873 W. S. Mayo Never Again xii. 164 Now studying stars, anon the ground, From narrow oillet pane. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Brachiopoda > [noun] > family Terebratulidae > genus Terebratula > member of oillet-shell1708 scale1784 1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 79 (advt.) Terebratula, the Hole-neb, or Oilet-shell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1333 |
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