bridgelet

plural bridgelets

1. uncommonA small bridge.

   Bony bridgelet confines tendons in front.

   1891 February 3, R. W. Shufeldt [aka Robert Wilson Shufeldt], “On the Question of Saurognathism of the Pici, and other Osteological Notes upon that Group”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 128

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   […] and (if convenience of pathway require it) stretching upon either side of a bridgelet, across the chasm of the road.

   1867, Donald Grant Mitchell, “Landscape Treatment of Railways”, in Rural Studies: with Hints for Country Places, Charles Scribner & Co., page 155

   But the pent currents, made for fights; the bridgelets, with their weedy and barnacled columns, daggers to unwary fingers; […]

   1887 July 29, Louise Imogen Guiney, “The Water-Ways of Portsmouth”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume LX, number CCCLVII, page 17

   O Colonia, that longest to disport thyself on a long bridge and art prepared for the dance, but that fearest the trembling legs of the bridgelet builded on re-used shavings, lest supine it may lie stretched in the hollow swamp; […]

   1894, “Of A “Predestined” Husband” (chapter XVII), in The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, pages 34-35