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the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole. Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet. -- Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth. -- Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2.

A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto.

A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.

A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grummet.

lds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. His hat hung at his back down by a lace. Chaucer. For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied.…

A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.

See Eyelet.

An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto.

Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge. Shak.

end by interweaving the nettles. -- To point a sail (Naut.), to affix points through the eyelet holes of the reefs. -- To point off, to divide into periods or groups, or to separate, by pointing, as figures. -- To point the yards (of a vessel) (Naut.), to brace them so that the wind shall strike the sails obliquely.…

Cloth worked in eyelet holes. [Obs.] Homilies.

A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made. Totten.

e Illust. of Cannon. (b) An additional thickness of canvas, cloth, or the like, around an eyelet, buttonhole, etc.

To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way. Totten.

A pointed instrument for making eyelet holes in embroidery.

collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.