eye-pit

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eye-pit

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From Middle English eye-put, heyeput, eȝe-put, equivalent to eye + pit.

noun eye-pits · eyepit · eye pit · eie-pit

  1. archaic The eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye. His cheeke-bones raw, and eie-pits hollow grew, / And brawney armes had lost their knowen might […].

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@misc{eye_pit_2026,
  title = {eye-pit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/eye-pit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}