Meanings
plural castlelets
- uncommonUncommon spelling of castlet.
Stockbery, that is, the woody bery, or fortreſs in the woody place; for here was a Caſtlelet of the Criols heretofore.
1776, John Philipot, “Etymology”, in Villare Cantianum; or, Kent surveyed and illustrated, page 3992 more examples
In a ſmall Iland of which not far from this Town, is a Tower,or Caſtlelet, called the Mouſeturn, i. e. the Tower of Mice : built by one of Hatto ( or Hanne ) Archbiſhop of Mentz, An. 900, or there abouts,
1666, Peter Heylyn, “Of Germany”, in Cosmographie in four bookes containing the chorographie and hiſtorie of the world, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Iſles thereof, page 417“[…] For there uprose, with turrets tall, / With circling moat, and massive wall, / The castlelet of Sammerhall.”’
1841, William Henry Leatham, “Leatham's Poems”, in James Orchard Halliwell, editor, The Archaeologist, and Journal of Antiquarian Science, John Russell Smith, page 68
Origin
- Old Frenchcastelet
- Middle Englishcastelet
- Englishcastlelet
From Middle English castelet, from Old French castelet, northern form of chastelet. Equivalent to castle + -let.
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