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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spyhole
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Amin crossed to the other side of the chamber and looked through a spyhole in the wall.
▪ Contrary to her usual habit she did not glance through the spyhole before beginning to undo the chain.
▪ He raised his head a moment and looked directly at the spyhole as if he sensed some one watching.
▪ She acknowledged the spyhole and peered through it, sometimes, when the sleeplessness got very bad.
▪ The guard slid the cover off the spyhole on the door.
▪ Then a little light came through the uncovered spyhole, a flickering, surreptitious light.
▪ There was a spyhole in one of the flats.
▪ Yet if she moved the chair, she saw the spyhole.
Wiktionary
spyhole

n. peephole

WordNet
spyhole

n. a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep [syn: peephole]

Usage examples of "spyhole".

The Wests even lent them their double bed in the ground-floor front room for the night, no doubt with a view to his watching through a spyhole in the door.

Tell me where the various secret passages, traps, spyholes, firing ports, and the like are hidden, around this room.

He went round the corner, past the lights of the spyholes, and he felt a freedom come on him.