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eyepit

eyepit is the alternative form of eye-pit.

Meaning of eye-pit

Noun

eye-pit (plural eye-pits)

  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 […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of eyepit

pluraleyepits

Questions about eyepit

What is eyepit the alternative form of?
Eyepit is the alternative form of eye-pit.

Words near eyepit in the dictionary

  1. eyepiece
  2. eyepieced
  3. eyepieces
  4. eyepin
  5. eyepins
  6. eyepit
  7. eyepits
  8. eyeplate
  9. eyeplates
  10. eyepoint
  11. eyepoints

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eyepit (page history and authors); eye-pit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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