Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little lake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little lake.
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- noun A small
lake .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A few miles below the lakelet is the last of the great slave-crossings.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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A few miles below the lakelet is the last of the great slave-crossings.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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Yes, and back of the house he would have a small garden, a place of meditation and repose, with goldfish in a tiny lakelet, and wind bells tinkling in the several trees, and there would be a high wall all around so that his meditation and repose should be undisturbed.
THE CHINAGO 2010
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They also questioned the oldest inhabitants they met, men well stricken in years, but they replied, each and every, “A lakelet this we never saw in this place.”
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Khitat informs us that the lakelet was made abot the end of the seventh century (A.H.), and in the seventeenth year of the eighth century became the site of the stables.
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We slept, one of the two nights Captain Gardner was with us, opposite the lakelet Chidia, which is connected with the river in flood time, and is nearly surrounded by hills some 500 or 600 feet high, dotted over with trees.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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At the lakelet Chidia, we noticed the same sandstone rock, with fossil wood on it, which we have on the Zambesi, and knew to be a sure evidence of coal beneath.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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In descending the Shire, we found concealed in the broad belt of papyrus round the lakelet Pamalombe, into which the river expands,
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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It shone like a mirrored lakelet of jet; on each side of it arose what at first glance seemed towering bulwarks of the same ebon obsidian; at second, revealed themselves as structures hewn and set in place by men; polished faces pierced by dozens of high, narrow windows.
The Moon Pool 2004
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He said he had been living in peace at the lakelet
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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