Definition of: eyelet

(ī′lit) noun
1. A small hole or opening; a little eye or aperture.
2. A hole made in canvas, leather, paper, or the like, either bushed with metal or worked around with buttonhole stitch.
3. A metal ring for protecting such a perforation: also eye′let-ring′.
4. Entomol. An ocellus.
—v.t. To make eyelets in. [<F oeillet, dim. of oeil an eye]