eyehole
(ˈaɪhəʊl)
[f. eye n.1 + hole.]
a. The cavity or socket containing the orbit of the eye. b. A hole to look through. c. dial. (See quot.)
| a. 1637 Rutherford Lett. lxxxviii. (1862) I. 227 Let their eyes rot in their eye-holes, who will not receive Him home again. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Een-holes, the eye-sockets. 1888 J. Shallow Templars Trials 68 Wheat grows through the eyeholes of the skull. |
| b. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxx. 406 A small eye-hole..enabled the in-dwellers to peep out. 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. 1878 Lockyer Stargazing 47 The stars were observed..through an eyehole, sliding on a fixed arc. |
| c. 1884 Holland Gloss. Chester (E.D.S.), Eye-hole, the depressions in a potato from which the buds spring. 1887 in Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire (E.D.S.). |