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oillet|ˈɔɪlɪt|
Forms: 4 oylete, 4–5 -ett(e, 4–9 oylet, 4–8 oilet, 5 olyet, 6 oyliet, 7 œlet, 8 oeillet, 9 oeilette, oillet.
[a. OF. oillet, mod.F. œillet, dim. of oil, oeïl eye. The spellings olyet, oyliet, represented the F. l mouillé. In later use changed, under the influence of eye n., to eyelet.]
†1. A small round hole worked in cloth for purposes of fastening, etc.; = eyelet n. 1 a. Obs.
1382Wyclif Exod. xxvi. 5 The curtyn shal haue fifti oiletis in either parti, so set in, that o oylete [1388 v.r. oon oilet] may come aȝen another [1388 v.r. an other oylett]. c1440Promp. Parv. 363/2 Olyet, made yn a clothe, for sperynge. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. v. 23 Drawing a rope thorow a blocke or oylet to runne vp and down.
2. An aperture or loophole for observation, etc.; = eyelet n. 2. Now only Hist.
1383–4Abingdon Rolls (Camden) 46 Solut' Symoni vitreario pro oyletiis trium fenestrarum claustri xxxvs. iijd. c1440Promp. Parv. 363/2 Olyet, hole yn a walle (H., P. lyteli hole). c1450Lonelich Grail xiv. 630 Thorwh the oylettes of his helm. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 37 Diverting themselves..at the anxious faces they saw..through the oilets of the tower. 1796Archæologia XII. 147 The parapet often had the merlons pierced with long chinks ending in round holes, called oeillets. 1851Turner Dom. Archit. I. vi. 234 A good battlement, with oillets. 1887MacGibbon & Ross Castell. & Dom. Archit. II. 378 Lighted with narrow loops..with top and bottom oylets.
†3. A small eye of a plant; = eyelet n. 3 b.
1574T. Hill Planting 86 Often..a man shall finde of oylets or eyes hard by the olde slender wood. 1601Holland Pliny I. 434 Prouided alwaies that the œlets stand 3 foot asunder. Ibid. II. 84 The little oilets and shoots from the root.
4. attrib. and Comb., as oillet-hole = eyelet-hole 1; oillet-shell, a shell of the genus Terebratula (or family Terebratulidæ), characterized by a circular perforation.
1530Palsgr. 249/1 *Oyliet hole, oillet. 1634Ford P. Warbeck ii. iii, Let my skin be punch'd full of oylet-holes with the bodkin of derision. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. II. 91 A Waste-coat quilted with Cotton and set thick with Oilet-holes. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos (1877) II. xxiii. 253 The collar worked with oylet-holes.
1873W. S. Mayo Never Again xii. 164 Now studying stars, anon the ground, From narrow *oillet pane.
1708Phil. Trans. XXVI. 79 Terebratula, the Hole-neb, or *Oilet-shell.
Hence oilleted a. [-ed2], furnished with eyelets.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 925 He prayed them to forbear a little, till he had put off his doublet, being oiletted. |