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Definition of Spyhole
1. Noun. A hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep.
Definition of Spyhole
1. Noun. peephole ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spyhole
1. a peephole [n -S] - See also: peephole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spyhole
Literary usage of Spyhole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1832)
"... to the spyhole, he VOL. LXXIII. saw Miss Smith with a paper, and a red cross
on it, held up before the window ; he called to his comrade to come and see ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1891)
"Consequently another " spyhole " was needed upon a slightly lower level. ...
The " spyhole " into the high chancel from this priest's chamber has always ..."
3. Grand Feu Ceramics: A Practical Treatise on the Making of Fine Porcelain and by Taxile Doat, Charles Fergus Binns (1905)
"The progress of the firing is watched through only one spyhole in the door of
the firing ... This spyhole is roughly made by four rectangular tiles (Fig. ..."
4. Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society and Surrounding Districts by County Kildare Archaeological Society (1895)
"Turning to the left, up the winding stone staircase, in the little turret one
notices a small round spyhole, which commands the gate. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Tooting-hole, a spyhole or loophole. See TUTHILL. TOOTLE, to play the flute, to
play a tin whistle. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"... in which he had once watched her instructing a deaf mute among the orphans.
ln feverish anxiety lest the surgeon should possess a spyhole, she continued ..."
7. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1889)
"They tell us that in women curiosity is a passion ; and in each cell door was a
spyhole, the lid of which could be shifted by any one in the corridor; ..."
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