"eye-pit" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: eye-pits [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English eye-put, heyeput, eȝe-put, equivalent to eye + pit. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|eye-put}} Middle English eye-put, {{af|en|eye|pit}} eye + pit Head templates: {{en-noun}} eye-pit (plural eye-pits)
  1. (now rare) The eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye. Tags: archaic Synonyms: eyepit, eye pit, eie-pit [obsolete]
    Sense id: en-eye-pit-en-noun-hs2b-OWK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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