"eyehole" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: eyeholes [plural]
Etymology: eye + hole Etymology templates: {{compound|en|eye|hole}} eye + hole Head templates: {{en-noun}} eyehole (plural eyeholes)
  1. The hole to which the viewer places his or her eye in a device such as a telescope. Categories (topical): Eye Translations (hole for viewing): espiera (Catalan), silmänreikä (Finnish), глазо́к (glazók) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-eyehole-en-noun-kF4R~m6~ Disambiguation of Eye: 65 35 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 25 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 93 7 Disambiguation of 'hole for viewing': 60 40
  2. The hole in a helmet, skull, etc. corresponding to the position of the eye.
    Sense id: en-eyehole-en-noun-~~NWDbUh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: eyebolt, eyelet, peephole, knothole

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for eyehole meaning in English (2.1kB)

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