An eyelet is a small hole with a metal ring around it, set into leather, cloth, or canvas so a string or a lace can go through without tearing the material. Shoes have eyelets; you thread the laces through them. Tents and bags have them so you can tie the cloth down. Some shirts and summer dresses have a pattern of little stitched holes, also called eyelets, more for looks than for laces. Though actually, that pretty-hole cloth is a neighbour of this meaning, not a different world: it is still a small eye in the fabric. People who make things may also eyelet a piece of leather, using it as a verb: they put those holes in. The picture to keep is the little ringed hole that a string can pass.

氣眼。五金行也叫「雞眼」，跟腳底的雞眼不是同一回事。