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Eyehole. World English Historical Dictionary

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Eyehole. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. Eyehole [f. EYE sb.1 + HOLE.] a. The cavity or socket containing the orbit of the eye. b. A hole to look through. c. dial. (See quot.)

1   a.  1637.  Rutherford, Lett., lxxxviii. (1862), I. 227. Let their eyes rot in their eye-holes, who will not receive Him home again.

2 1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Een-holes, the eye-sockets.

3 1888.  J. Shallow, Templars Trials, 68. Wheat grows through the eyeholes of the skull.

4   b.  1856.  Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxx. 406. A small eye-hole commanding the bay enabled the in-dwellers to peep out.

5 1863.  Sala, Breakfast in Bed (1864), 286. A crumpled bit of pasteboard covered with black silk, with two eyeholes and a fringe of sham lace.

6 1878.  Lockyer, Stargazing, 47. The stars were observed … through an eyehole, sliding on a fixed arc.

7   c.  1884.  Holland, Gloss. Chester (E. D. S.), Eye hole, the depressions in a potato from which the buds spring.

8 1887.  in Darlington, Folk-speech S. Cheshire (E.D.S.).

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