eyeletn.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪlᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈaɪlət/

Forms: 1500s–1600s ilet, 1500s–1800s eylet, 1600s eielet, 1600s eylot, 1600s ilot, 1600s– eyelet, 1700s eilet.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: eye n.¹, -let suffix.

Etymology: < eye n.¹ + -let suffix, partly after Middle French, French œillet oillet n. Compare eyelet hole n. and earlier oillet n.

a. A small round hole in leather, cloth, sailcloth, etc., usually reinforced with stitching or an insert, for a lace, string, rope, ring, or the like to pass through; a ring used to reinforce such a hole (= eyelet ring n. at Compounds 3). Also: a similar opening worked for decorative effect in a piece of embroidery, knitting, etc. Cf. eyelet hole n. 1, oillet n. 2a.Quot. a1807 apparently shows an extended use of this sense.Recorded earliest in eyelet-holed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated > worked in cloth, etc.

oilleta1382

oillet-hole1497

py1553

eyelet1590

eyelet hole1599

pie-hole1737

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons f. 46^v Ilet-holed doublets verie easie and well fitted to their bodies.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 624/2 At euery Eylet the Needle left hanging by the silke.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) vii. 252 Winding up his mouth..into an orifice..a lurking eyelet, small And only not invisible.

1838 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 30 May (advt.) Just received a quantity of white and black metallic eyelets for corsets.

1839 Lady's Bk. Oct. 177/1 Miss Lizzy,..please show me how to work dots, mother likes them better than eyelets.

1897 Boot & Shoe Recorder 31 Mar. 87/1 The oblong copper eyelets and copper hooks are used with good effect in contrast to the colored upper stock.

1911 E. A. Archer Needlecraft (1916) xiv. 152 Little eyelets or satin-stitch dots are worked between the lines.

1921 Pop. Mech. Apr. 558/2 Metal eyelets reinforce the attachment holes.

1974 J. Gray Canvas Work 8/2 Stiletto. For separating canvas threads for eyelets.

2006 H. Dixon Not your Mama's Knitting viii. 85 Using yarn overs, work a row of eyelets into your knitting, which when folded in half will give you a neat edge of tiny scallops.

b. A small loop or ring, usually of metal, through which something may be threaded or passed; = eye n.¹ 13a.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hook > loop of hook and eye

eye1548

eyelet1743

hitch1828

1743 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 367 A Rope is fixed to the Hook of the Block, tied into an Eilet at the End.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 265 Hooked wires or eyelets to guide several filaments and keep them asunder.

1913 Field & Stream 30 Aug. 259/1 You will find you cannot thread the line through the eyelets of the rod without removing hook and sinker.

1939 Amateur Radio Handbk. iii. 45/2 These valves..are ordinary valve types mounted in a metal bulb, welded or brazed together, having the lead-out wires passed through eyelets..mounted in the metal bulb.

1986 E. Hall in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) iii. xii. 488 Steel bending springs are made for all sizes of copper tube. They have an eyelet in the end into which a tommy bar can be inserted.

2004 Pract. Crafts July 53/4 Thread the bead chain through the eyelet and around one of the handles.

c. A small loop (of wire, metal, thread, etc.) in a hook-and-eye fastening (see hook and eye n.); = eye n.¹ 13b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > hook(s) and eye(s) > eye

eye1576

eyelet1894

1894 J. E. Davis Elem. Mod. Dressmaking iii. 69 Occasionally the fashion prevails of fastening such materials with hooks and eyelets, and buttons are sewn down the edge..to simulate a buttoned front.

1908 Mainly About People 7 Mar. 234/1 I have a large hook under the waistcoat in front, which goes into an eyelet at the top of the trousers.

1967 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 20 Nov. a3/2 (advt.) Around each panty leg is a hidden row of tiny hooks. Around the top of hip-high stockings, a row of tiny eyelets. Hooks get into eyelets.

1982 S. Rosenzweig Sportsfitness for Women v. 97 The bra has no decorative lace, exposed metal hooks or eyelets, or front closures to scrape your skin during strenuous exercise.

2011 C. B. Shaeffer Couture Sewing Techniques (rev ed.) 104/2 Since this hook is flat between the eyelets, it can be sewn to the wrong side of the waistband before the facing or lining is applied.

2. A small bud on a plant stem, tuber, etc. Also: a shoot that has emerged from this. Now rare.

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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [noun]

burgeoninga1340

bud1398

burging1398

burgeona1400

tendron14..

buttona1425

pumple1523

oillet1574

dodkin1578

pimple1582

eyelet1600

knot1601

eye1618

budleta1864

button bud1869

break1933

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. x. 441 Shootes..full of sap, hauing grosse and thicke set eielets [Fr. œillets].

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. a Artichoke-Eyes or Eyelets, are the off-sets growing about the main Stool or Heart of Artichoke Roots.

1749 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 157 In laying eyelets, new roots proceed from the part where the incision in made, or from the adjacent nodes.

1839 New Eng. Farmer 30 Oct. 153/3 From a single Rohan potato..having eighteen eyelets, was raised full three pecks in measure.

1886 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 13 39 One of the ‘eyelets’ [of the potato] had grown.

1909 Country Gentleman 27 May 527 A marked and peculiar activity among a certain class of somatic cells in these eyelets or buds.

3. A (small) eyehole; (also occasionally) an arrow slit; = eyelet hole n. 2. Now rare.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > hole or window

oillet1333

tooting-holea1382

tote-hole1561

peepholea1570

eyehole1655

eyelet1762

eyelet hole1774

eye-loop1803

Judas hole1858

peek-hole1867

oillet pane1873

squint1891

observation window1897

viewport1942

port1949

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > for looking through

oillet1333

loop1393

sight-hole1559

tote-hole1561

peepholea1570

loophole1591

eyehole1655

grille1686

slit17..

eyelet1762

eyelet hole1774

spying-hole1791

eye-loop1803

squint1839

hagioscope1840

Judas hole1858

peek-hole1867

oillet pane1873

spy-hole1888

squint1891

viewport1942

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > loophole

loop1393

lancet-loupe1562

loophole1591

barbican1600

eyelet hole1774

arrow slit1789

meurtrière1802

murderess1802

shot-hole1819

arrowlet1837

arrow loop1840

eyelet1851

musket-slit1856

cross-oylet1859

shoot-hole1892

1762 R. Lloyd Poems 91 Peeping the curtain's eyelet through.

1832 Morning Chron. 28 July The person descends, his head enveloped in a large leaden mask, with glass eyelets, protected by small brass bars.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiii. 574 A woman..with a black mask on, through the eyelets of which her eyes twinkled strangely.

1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. vii. 336 In which there are loop-holes or eylets for arrows.

1864 T. Guthrie Platform Sayings 170 Looking through the eyelet of the cell door, I saw a poor infant within these four walls immured there in prison.

2008 S. Leah Dead City Streets 22 One of his daughters raced to look through the eyelet in the door and shouted back that it was some strange man.

4. A small eye (literal and figurative), as an eyespot on the wing of a butterfly or moth (now rare), or an ocellus (ocellus n. 1) of an invertebrate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > by size, shape, etc.

pinkany?1578

pig's eye1658

pigsney1664

ox-eye1688

pig-eye1714

sparkler1746

gooseberry-eye1789

eyelet1799

gooseberry-orb1803

pop-eye1828

swine eye1836

pink-eye1897

bug-eyes1905

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > member of (butterfly) > parts of > ocellus

eyelet1832

1799 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 7 139 With eyelets, by the fat flesh squeez'd together.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 23 The Eyed Hawk Wings..; second pair rosy at the base, the tips much paler, with a large blue eyelet near the posterior angle.

1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 379 Wicked eyelets, wicked mouth, Face me fairly, tell me truth!

1848 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 335 Eyelets (ocelli) two, small, black.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlvi. 233 They could discern eyelets of light.

2000 Pop. Sci. Feb. 28/1 But the bulging eyes of X. peckii have no more than 50 lenses for each eye. Because the lenses are quite large, and each has its own retina, the Cornell team has dubbed them ‘eyelets’.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and other compounds.

ΚΠ

1855 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (33rd Congress, 2nd Session) XI. No. 44-2. 26 (table) For what paid..1 eyelet punch.

1868 Harper's Bazar 1 Feb. 215/4 Knit two rounds backward and forward as usual, then one eyelet row, and finally two rounds plain.

1880 Catal. Tool Wks. Sheffield (G. Turner) 80 Best bright Eyelet Closing Pliers.

1914 Iron Age 3 Sept. 549/1 The Waterbury Farrel Foundry & Machine Company..has made a number of improvements in its line of eyelet machines.

2002 S. Mallon Samoan Art & Artists xiv. 172 Each tassel was looped and fastened into an eyelet shape at one end, through which they were threaded onto a long string.

C2. Needlework. Designating embroidery or material which has been worked with many eyelets, or so as to be largely composed of them, typically giving an openwork effect; (later also) designating items made of or featuring material of this kind.

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1874 Mass. Ploughman 25 Apr. Rows of Hamburgh or eyelet embroidery.

1895 Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois) 3 Apr. A small bonnet of white eyelet lace, draped across the front with veloures of brilliant in hermosa pink.

1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 253/1 Eyelet or English embroidery as decoration.

1940 Life 15 Apr. 54/2 (caption) Eyelet collar and cuff sets refresh old dresses.

1964 Which? Apr. 123/1 Cellular, mesh or eyelet fabrics have a regular pattern of small holes over the surface.

1983 A. Tyler Slipping-down Life x. 101 She..put on a white eyelet dress.

1995 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. Autumn–Winter 258/1 Pack of 4 eyelet panties with cuff leg.

2004 P. Bogdanovich Who the Hell's in it (2005) 160 Wearing..a red bow tie on an eyelet lace button-down dress shirt.

C3.

eyelet ring n. a small ring of hard material used to reinforce an eyelet (sense 1a).

ΚΠ

1676 J. Sterpin tr. L. J. Debes Færoœ v. 262 He taketh rather the Pewter Spoons, because he can melt it and make thereof Ilet Rings for womens bodies.

1890 J. Currie Notes Trav. 82 It [sc. a bird] was back again, pecking at the brass eyelet rings in my boots.

2002 Sunday Mail (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Sept. 8 Snip through the fabric where you need the holes, snap on the plastic eyelet ring to cover the uneven edges, and slide the curtain pole through the rings.

eyelet stitch n. Needlework a stitch used to work eyelets; an ornamental stitch derived from this, in which stitches are placed so as to radiate from a central point (see also quot. 1909).

ΚΠ

1849 E. H. Melville & C. Norton Resid. at Sierra Leone xxiii. 196 That particular stitch known to all little girls who have mastered their first sampler as ‘eyelet stitch’.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Eyelet-stitch, in sewing-machine work, the method of placing the stitches in radial lines round an eyelet-hole or over a metal reinforcing ring or eyelet.

1960 B. L. Snook Eng. Hist. Embroidery 53 Other shirts..have four-sided stitch and eyelet stitch on the front opening.

2003 J. Gillow Afr. Textiles 144/2 The use of eyelet stitch, giving a chequerboard effect, is very characteristic of Algiers work.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eyelet
释义	eyeletn. Brit. /ˈʌɪlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈaɪlət/ Forms: 1500s–1600s ilet, 1500s–1800s eylet, 1600s eielet, 1600s eylot, 1600s ilot, 1600s– eyelet, 1700s eilet. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: eye n.¹, -let suffix. Etymology: < eye n.¹ + -let suffix, partly after Middle French, French œillet oillet n. Compare eyelet hole n. and earlier oillet n. 1. a. A small round hole in leather, cloth, sailcloth, etc., usually reinforced with stitching or an insert, for a lace, string, rope, ring, or the like to pass through; a ring used to reinforce such a hole (= eyelet ring n. at Compounds 3). Also: a similar opening worked for decorative effect in a piece of embroidery, knitting, etc. Cf. eyelet hole n. 1, oillet n. 2a.Quot. a1807 apparently shows an extended use of this sense.Recorded earliest in eyelet-holed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated > worked in cloth, etc. oilleta1382 oillet-hole1497 py1553 eyelet1590 eyelet hole1599 pie-hole1737 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons f. 46^v Ilet-holed doublets verie easie and well fitted to their bodies. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 624/2 At euery Eylet the Needle left hanging by the silke. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) vii. 252 Winding up his mouth..into an orifice..a lurking eyelet, small And only not invisible. 1838 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 30 May (advt.) Just received a quantity of white and black metallic eyelets for corsets. 1839 Lady's Bk. Oct. 177/1 Miss Lizzy,..please show me how to work dots, mother likes them better than eyelets. 1897 Boot & Shoe Recorder 31 Mar. 87/1 The oblong copper eyelets and copper hooks are used with good effect in contrast to the colored upper stock. 1911 E. A. Archer Needlecraft (1916) xiv. 152 Little eyelets or satin-stitch dots are worked between the lines. 1921 Pop. Mech. Apr. 558/2 Metal eyelets reinforce the attachment holes. 1974 J. Gray Canvas Work 8/2 Stiletto. For separating canvas threads for eyelets. 2006 H. Dixon Not your Mama's Knitting viii. 85 Using yarn overs, work a row of eyelets into your knitting, which when folded in half will give you a neat edge of tiny scallops. b. A small loop or ring, usually of metal, through which something may be threaded or passed; = eye n.¹ 13a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hook > loop of hook and eye eye1548 eyelet1743 hitch1828 1743 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 367 A Rope is fixed to the Hook of the Block, tied into an Eilet at the End. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 265 Hooked wires or eyelets to guide several filaments and keep them asunder. 1913 Field & Stream 30 Aug. 259/1 You will find you cannot thread the line through the eyelets of the rod without removing hook and sinker. 1939 Amateur Radio Handbk. iii. 45/2 These valves..are ordinary valve types mounted in a metal bulb, welded or brazed together, having the lead-out wires passed through eyelets..mounted in the metal bulb. 1986 E. Hall in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) iii. xii. 488 Steel bending springs are made for all sizes of copper tube. They have an eyelet in the end into which a tommy bar can be inserted. 2004 Pract. Crafts July 53/4 Thread the bead chain through the eyelet and around one of the handles. c. A small loop (of wire, metal, thread, etc.) in a hook-and-eye fastening (see hook and eye n.); = eye n.¹ 13b. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > hook(s) and eye(s) > eye eye1576 eyelet1894 1894 J. E. Davis Elem. Mod. Dressmaking iii. 69 Occasionally the fashion prevails of fastening such materials with hooks and eyelets, and buttons are sewn down the edge..to simulate a buttoned front. 1908 Mainly About People 7 Mar. 234/1 I have a large hook under the waistcoat in front, which goes into an eyelet at the top of the trousers. 1967 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 20 Nov. a3/2 (advt.) Around each panty leg is a hidden row of tiny hooks. Around the top of hip-high stockings, a row of tiny eyelets. Hooks get into eyelets. 1982 S. Rosenzweig Sportsfitness for Women v. 97 The bra has no decorative lace, exposed metal hooks or eyelets, or front closures to scrape your skin during strenuous exercise. 2011 C. B. Shaeffer Couture Sewing Techniques (rev ed.) 104/2 Since this hook is flat between the eyelets, it can be sewn to the wrong side of the waistband before the facing or lining is applied. 2. A small bud on a plant stem, tuber, etc. Also: a shoot that has emerged from this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [noun] burgeoninga1340 bud1398 burging1398 burgeona1400 tendron14.. buttona1425 pumple1523 oillet1574 dodkin1578 pimple1582 eyelet1600 knot1601 eye1618 budleta1864 button bud1869 break1933 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. x. 441 Shootes..full of sap, hauing grosse and thicke set eielets [Fr. œillets]. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. a Artichoke-Eyes or Eyelets, are the off-sets growing about the main Stool or Heart of Artichoke Roots. 1749 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 157 In laying eyelets, new roots proceed from the part where the incision in made, or from the adjacent nodes. 1839 New Eng. Farmer 30 Oct. 153/3 From a single Rohan potato..having eighteen eyelets, was raised full three pecks in measure. 1886 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 13 39 One of the ‘eyelets’ [of the potato] had grown. 1909 Country Gentleman 27 May 527 A marked and peculiar activity among a certain class of somatic cells in these eyelets or buds. 3. A (small) eyehole; (also occasionally) an arrow slit; = eyelet hole n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > hole or window oillet1333 tooting-holea1382 tote-hole1561 peepholea1570 eyehole1655 eyelet1762 eyelet hole1774 eye-loop1803 Judas hole1858 peek-hole1867 oillet pane1873 squint1891 observation window1897 viewport1942 port1949 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > for looking through oillet1333 loop1393 sight-hole1559 tote-hole1561 peepholea1570 loophole1591 eyehole1655 grille1686 slit17.. eyelet1762 eyelet hole1774 spying-hole1791 eye-loop1803 squint1839 hagioscope1840 Judas hole1858 peek-hole1867 oillet pane1873 spy-hole1888 squint1891 viewport1942 society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > loophole loop1393 lancet-loupe1562 loophole1591 barbican1600 eyelet hole1774 arrow slit1789 meurtrière1802 murderess1802 shot-hole1819 arrowlet1837 arrow loop1840 eyelet1851 musket-slit1856 cross-oylet1859 shoot-hole1892 1762 R. Lloyd Poems 91 Peeping the curtain's eyelet through. 1832 Morning Chron. 28 July The person descends, his head enveloped in a large leaden mask, with glass eyelets, protected by small brass bars. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiii. 574 A woman..with a black mask on, through the eyelets of which her eyes twinkled strangely. 1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. vii. 336 In which there are loop-holes or eylets for arrows. 1864 T. Guthrie Platform Sayings 170 Looking through the eyelet of the cell door, I saw a poor infant within these four walls immured there in prison. 2008 S. Leah Dead City Streets 22 One of his daughters raced to look through the eyelet in the door and shouted back that it was some strange man. 4. A small eye (literal and figurative), as an eyespot on the wing of a butterfly or moth (now rare), or an ocellus (ocellus n. 1) of an invertebrate. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > by size, shape, etc. pinkany?1578 pig's eye1658 pigsney1664 ox-eye1688 pig-eye1714 sparkler1746 gooseberry-eye1789 eyelet1799 gooseberry-orb1803 pop-eye1828 swine eye1836 pink-eye1897 bug-eyes1905 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > member of (butterfly) > parts of > ocellus eyelet1832 1799 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 7 139 With eyelets, by the fat flesh squeez'd together. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 23 The Eyed Hawk Wings..; second pair rosy at the base, the tips much paler, with a large blue eyelet near the posterior angle. 1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 379 Wicked eyelets, wicked mouth, Face me fairly, tell me truth! 1848 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 335 Eyelets (ocelli) two, small, black. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlvi. 233 They could discern eyelets of light. 2000 Pop. Sci. Feb. 28/1 But the bulging eyes of X. peckii have no more than 50 lenses for each eye. Because the lenses are quite large, and each has its own retina, the Cornell team has dubbed them ‘eyelets’. Compounds C1. General attributive and other compounds. ΚΠ 1855 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (33rd Congress, 2nd Session) XI. No. 44-2. 26 (table) For what paid..1 eyelet punch. 1868 Harper's Bazar 1 Feb. 215/4 Knit two rounds backward and forward as usual, then one eyelet row, and finally two rounds plain. 1880 Catal. Tool Wks. Sheffield (G. Turner) 80 Best bright Eyelet Closing Pliers. 1914 Iron Age 3 Sept. 549/1 The Waterbury Farrel Foundry & Machine Company..has made a number of improvements in its line of eyelet machines. 2002 S. Mallon Samoan Art & Artists xiv. 172 Each tassel was looped and fastened into an eyelet shape at one end, through which they were threaded onto a long string. C2. Needlework. Designating embroidery or material which has been worked with many eyelets, or so as to be largely composed of them, typically giving an openwork effect; (later also) designating items made of or featuring material of this kind. ΚΠ 1874 Mass. Ploughman 25 Apr. Rows of Hamburgh or eyelet embroidery. 1895 Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois) 3 Apr. A small bonnet of white eyelet lace, draped across the front with veloures of brilliant in hermosa pink. 1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 253/1 Eyelet or English embroidery as decoration. 1940 Life 15 Apr. 54/2 (caption) Eyelet collar and cuff sets refresh old dresses. 1964 Which? Apr. 123/1 Cellular, mesh or eyelet fabrics have a regular pattern of small holes over the surface. 1983 A. Tyler Slipping-down Life x. 101 She..put on a white eyelet dress. 1995 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. Autumn–Winter 258/1 Pack of 4 eyelet panties with cuff leg. 2004 P. Bogdanovich Who the Hell's in it (2005) 160 Wearing..a red bow tie on an eyelet lace button-down dress shirt. C3. eyelet ring n. a small ring of hard material used to reinforce an eyelet (sense 1a). ΚΠ 1676 J. Sterpin tr. L. J. Debes Færoœ v. 262 He taketh rather the Pewter Spoons, because he can melt it and make thereof Ilet Rings for womens bodies. 1890 J. Currie Notes Trav. 82 It [sc. a bird] was back again, pecking at the brass eyelet rings in my boots. 2002 Sunday Mail (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Sept. 8 Snip through the fabric where you need the holes, snap on the plastic eyelet ring to cover the uneven edges, and slide the curtain pole through the rings. eyelet stitch n. Needlework a stitch used to work eyelets; an ornamental stitch derived from this, in which stitches are placed so as to radiate from a central point (see also quot. 1909). ΚΠ 1849 E. H. Melville & C. Norton Resid. at Sierra Leone xxiii. 196 That particular stitch known to all little girls who have mastered their first sampler as ‘eyelet stitch’. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Eyelet-stitch, in sewing-machine work, the method of placing the stitches in radial lines round an eyelet-hole or over a metal reinforcing ring or eyelet. 1960 B. L. Snook Eng. Hist. Embroidery 53 Other shirts..have four-sided stitch and eyelet stitch on the front opening. 2003 J. Gillow Afr. Textiles 144/2 The use of eyelet stitch, giving a chequerboard effect, is very characteristic of Algiers work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). eyeletv. Brit. /ˈʌɪlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈaɪlət/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: eyelet n. Etymology: < eyelet n. Compare eyeleted adj. transitive. To provide with an eyelet or eyelets, make eyelets in (in various senses of the noun).In quot. 1832 apparently: to inflict many wounds upon (cf. eyelet hole n. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > small eyelet-hole1747 eyelet1832 eye1842 buttonhole1862 1832 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Oct. 323 The cockneys,—good men some of them, and have been, since they eyeleted the royalists at Brentford in 1642. 1862 U.S. Patent 37,170 1 (heading) Improved machine for punching and eyeleting shoes, &c. 1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Oct. 7/1 The Prison Commissioners have undertaken to ‘eyelet’ 27,000 waterproof blankets for the War Department. 1949 I. S. Webster How to make Money at Home vi. 131 The finishing touches are added by eyeleting the straps and running ribbons or shoestrings through. 2005 Mail on Sunday 23 Oct. (You Mag.) 77 (caption) Textural, printed felt has been eyeleted and hung from butcher's hooks to make curtains. Derivatives ˈeyeleting n. ΚΠ 1857 Mass. Reg. 91 (Advertising Dept.) 4 Various machines used by the trade, such as sole cutting machines,..punching and eyeleting machines, &c., &c. 1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 286/2 Self-feeding eyeleting machine, foot-power. 1949 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 7 219 Eyeleting is one of these structural modifications. 2010 Financial Express (India) (Nexis) 23 Aug. Manufacturers opposed the department by saying that..tarpaulin after stitching and eyeleting continues to be only cotton fabric. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1590v.1832
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eyeletn.

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eyeletv.

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