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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eyehole

Eyehole \Eye"hole`\, n. A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eyehole

also eye-hole, late 15c., from eye (n.) + hole (n.).

Wiktionary
eyehole

n. 1 The hole to which the viewer places his or her eye in a device such as a telescope. 2 The hole in a helmet, skull, etc. corresponding to the position of the eye.

Usage examples of "eyehole".

Out of an eyehole of the skull a dusty gray scorpion half crawled, then retreated, tail over back, venomous, deadly.

It spread and thickened as it dripped from that second eyehole opening.

They seemed, in the half-dusk, to glower down through their round, empty eyeholes like sinister devil-fish awaiting prey.

Master, while Alden blinked strangely through his eyeholes, and Rrisa in Arabic affirmed that there is no God but Allah.

For a long moment the eyes of the Master met those of Captain Alden, that strangely peered out at him through the eyeholes of the pink, celluloid mask.

I could not see the clouds, but caught occasional flares of lightning on the edge of my vision against the eyeholes of the mask.

William Bartholomew, stalking the streets as if he were in charge of them, peering through his eyeholes at cats leaping in a mound of very ripe garbage at the mouth of an alley at Seventy-ninth Street, made his way down to the Five Points and his bed.

Small lifted his head and peered out of his eyeholes after the school bus.

She left only his earholes and his eyeholes and his nostrils, which were full of fur, rolled open so that the cats could breathe.

The netman jabbed his trident at the staring eyeholes of the helmet before him, simultaneously making a high cast of the bunched net.

With difficulty, he fixed his gaze upon the eyeholes of the Helm of Shadows and held it there.

The eyeholes of the Helm of Shadows gazed upward from the ground, dark with pain and horror.

For a second, the slitted eyeholes in the mask surveyed the four men in the leather chairs.

He was looking at me through the eyeholes in his mask and his eyes were as flat and gray as nickels on a pad.

Weissmann with his hair combed in bangs, wearing white silk lounging pajamas, rhinestone pumps, and black eyeholes and lips, to steal another oscillograph roll.