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Definition of Eyeholes
1. eyehole [n] - See also: eyehole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyeholes
Literary usage of Eyeholes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stepping Stones to Literature by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1897)
"And when he has got to the eyeholes, he hammers through one of them with the
point of his heavy claw. So far, so good; but how is he to get the meat out? ..."
2. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"It then descends, goes to the nut, and with its strong claws tears off the fibrous
husk, always commencing at that end where the three eyeholes are situated ..."
3. The Russo-Japanese War: Reports from British Officers Attached to the by Great Britain War Office. General Staff, Great Britain War Office (1908)
"Square boards, backed with iron f-inch thick, with two small square holes cut in
them, were used by the Japanese as eyeholes for the sentries in the ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Fossils of Pennsylvania and Neighboring States Named in by J. Peter Lesley (1889)
"ISi combining as it does the eyeholes of ... between the eyeholes, and divided
into two by ^ a narrow bridge.—XIII. NOTE. Prof. Cope was good enough (f8 to ..."
5. The Silver-Burdett Readers by Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet (1906)
"And when he has got to the eyeholes, he hammers through one of them with the
point of his heavy claw. So far, so good : but how is he to get the meat out? ..."
6. The Romance of the Animal World: Interesting Descriptions of the Strange by Edmund Selous (1905)
"It then, he said, hammered with its claws, which are heavy and powerful, on one
of the eyeholes and, having made an opening, turned round and inserted its ..."
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