lakelet
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lakelet (plural lakelets)
- A small lake.
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Centre of Indifference”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 122:
- Of great Scenes, why speak? Three summer days, I lingered reflecting, and even composing (dichtete), by the Pine-chasms of Vaucluse; and in that clear Lakelet moistened my bread.
- 1888, R[obert] M[ichael] Ballantyne, “The False Step”, in Blue Lights: Or Hot Work in the Soudan. […], London: James Nisbet & Co., […], →OCLC, page 1:
- There is a dividing ridge in the great northern wilderness of America, whereon lies a lakelet of not more than twenty yards in diameter.
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter II, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:
- A few springs are found, but they are far apart, and some of the volcanic craters hold lakelets.
- 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, [1]
- The locality Strangway and his companions were now in was not unfamiliar to at least two of them, and as they knew it there was little difficulty in treading through the numerous salt lakes and lakelets which dotted the landscape.
- 1907, Kalevala, translated by W. F. Kirby, Vol. 2, London: J.M. Dent & New York: E.P. Dutton, Runo XXXI, 137-140, p. 72, [2]
- There was water in the lakelet, / Which perchance might fill two ladles, / Or if more exactly measured, / Partly was a third filled also.
- 2012 September 17, Matthew Norman, “(please specify the article title)”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph[3], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- The chef’s refusal to crisp the fat on a grilled pork chop — which arrived slumped on a lakelet of gravy which had been allowed to form a skin sturdy enough to see an Eskimo through the bitterest Alaskan winter — was the least of it.