castlelet

English

Etymology

From Middle English castelet, from Old French castelet, northern form of chastelet. Equivalent to castle +‎ -let.

Noun

castlelet (plural castlelets)

1. Uncommon spelling of castlet.
   • 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:

     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,

   • 1776, John Philipot, “Etymology”, in Villare Cantianum; or, Kent surveyed and illustrated, page 399:

     Stockbery, that is, the woody bery, or fortreſs in the woody place; for here was a Caſtlelet of the Criols heretofore.

   • 1841, William Henry Leatham, “Leatham's Poems”, in James Orchard Halliwell, editor, The Archaeologist, and Journal of Antiquarian Science, John Russell Smith, page 68:

     “ […] For there uprose, with turrets tall, / With circling moat, and massive wall, / The castlelet of Sammerhall.”’