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y, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.

One who peeps; a prying person; a spy. Who's there peepers, . . . eavesdroppers J. Webster.

nwale of a whaleboat. -- Span roof, a common roof, having two slopes and one ridge, with eaves on both sides. Gwilt. -- Span shackle (Naut.), a large bolt driven through the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

tead you much your purpose to subdue. Spenser. It nothing steads us To chide him from our eaves. Shak.

A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves. Bacon.

Under the roof or eaves; within doors. [R.]

ges, etc. Trough gutter (Arch.), a rectangular or V-shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house. -- Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves.