- A hole
- An opening or space
- An opening, hole or gap
- Hole or opening
- Hole, opening
- Lens opening
- Slit
- Detain in conversation
- Flower worn on the lapel
- Lapel slit
- Waylay a flower at a wedding
- The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
- To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in
conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of
an hour.
- Aperture
- Cut lengthwise
- Long cut
- Long narrow opening
- Long or narrow cut
- Narrow aperture
- Narrow opening
- Cutting open
- of Slit
- a. & n. from Slit.