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noun

Eyelet n.

A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; used to line an eyelet hole.

Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet.

Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth.

Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2.

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Etymology of 'Eyelet'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eyelet" Quotes from Famous Books

... and double-barred, the tops boarded up to save mending; and only a little four-paned eyelet-hole of a casement to let in air; more, however, coming in at broken panes than could ...

— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson

... are. I was afraid that Martha had had an accident with the fungi, and had prepared a substitute from my old shooting boots, but I can't see either eyelet or ...

— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn

... particularly proud of, was a pair of stays. They were a long time in hand, for the fitting them was a most difficult job; but when finished, they were such curiosities of needlework, that Susan's neat mother herself used to show off the stitching and the eyelet-holes to every friend ...

— The Doll and Her Friends - or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina • Unknown

... Crossing to the station, Judson Green took note of this barber shop and took note also that his russet shoes had suffered from his trudge through the dusty park. Likewise one of the silken strings had frayed through; the broken end stood up through the top eyelet in an untidy fringed effect. So he turned off short and went into the little place and mounted the new tall chair that stood just inside the door. The only other customer in the place was in the act of leaving. ...

— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb

... tufts of yellow flowers, which grow on the projections high out of reach, where the winds have sown their seeds in soil made by the aged decay of the edifice. I could write a page, too, about the rooks or jackdaws that flit and clamor about the pinnacles, and dart in and out of the eyelet-holes, the piercings,—whatever they are called,—in the turrets and buttresses. On our way back to the hotel, J——- saw an advertisement of some knights in armor that were to tilt to-day; so he and I waited, and by and by a procession appeared, ...

— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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