[f. prec. sb.] trans. To make eyelets in: lit. and fig.
1832. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), II. 323. The cockneys … eyeleted the royalists at Brentford in 1642.
Hence Eyeleted ppl. a. Eyeleting vbl. sb.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., Eyeleting-machine, a machine for attaching eyelets to garments and other objects.
1885. Newhall, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 286/2. Self-feeding eyeleting machine, foot-power.
1891. Ch. Times, 27 Feb., 209/3. Advt., [A card] … eyeleted for hanging up.
Mod. Eyeleted luggage-labels.
