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hamlet1|ˈhæmlɪt|
Also 4 hamelat, hamillet, 4–6 hamelett(e, 4–7 hamelet, 6 hamlette, 7 hamblet.
[a. OF. hamelet, in AFr. also hamelete, hamlette, (med.L. hameletum, -letta), secondary dim. of hamel: see hamel.]
A group of houses or small village in the country; esp. a village without a church, included in the parish belonging to another village or a town. (In some of the United States, the official designation of an incorporated place smaller than a village.)
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 310 þe fote men ilk a flok, A pouere hamlete toke, þe castelle Karelauerok. Ibid. 340 He died at a hamelette, men calle it Burgh bisandes. 1483Cath. Angl. 172/2 A Hamelett, villula. 1546in Eng. Gilds (1870) 222 Wt vij lyttle hamlettes therto belonging. 1604View of Fraunce C b, One hundred thirtie two thousand of Parish Churches, Hamlets, and Villages of all sorts. 1675Ogilby Brit. Introd. 3 The Hamlets of the Tower made up 2 Regiments. 1750Gray Elegy iv, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 1820Scott Monast. i, A small village or hamlet, where..some thirty or forty families dwelt together. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. ii. xlviii. 247 Ohio..divides her municipal corporations into (a) cities..(b) villages..and (c) hamlets, incorporated places with less than 200 inhabitants.
attrib.1641Commons Jrnls. II. 262 For the Hamlet Men, it was Harvest-time. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S. Co. 123 The thatcher, the most important perhaps of the hamlet craftsmen.
b. transf. The people of a hamlet. (poetic.)
1726–46Thomson Winter 422 Hamlets sleeping in the dead of night. 1850Tennyson In Mem. x, Where the kneeling hamlet drains The chalice of the grapes of God.
Hence ˈhamleted a., located in a hamlet. hamleˈteer, an inhabitant of a hamlet. ˈhamletize v. U.S., to incorporate as a hamlet; hence hamletiˈzation.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. xlix. 256 Hamletted in some untravelled village of the duller Country. 1825T. Cromwell Hist. Colchester 102 Overcoming a feeble opposition from the Tower Hambleteers. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 283 Going back to give the rudiments of education to remote hamleteers. 1893Dispatch (Columbus) 9 Feb., The controversy concerning the hamletizing of Bullitt Park. Ibid., Annexation, not hamletization, should occur. |