eye-pit

English

Alternative forms

• eyepit, eye pit
• eie-pit (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Noun

eye-pit (plural eye-pits)

1. (now rare) The eye socket; the concave area of the face around each eye.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His cheeke-bones raw, and eie-pits hollow grew, / And brawney armes had lost their knowen might […].

Anagrams

• pit-eye