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eyelet is a noun meaning "a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar". It carries 2 recorded senses.
fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for eyelet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.