释义 |
portlet|ˈpɔətlɪt| [f. port n.1 + -let.] A small or tiny port; a creek.
1587Harrison England i. xii. in Holinshed I. 60/2 Being past these portlets [mouths of the Erme and Yealm] then next of all we come to Plimmouth hauen. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 99 Where it maketh a portlett for smale shippinge. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 178 The artificial islands and portlets which he made by the seaside, are all now equally invisible. 1888W. Denton Eng. in 15th C. 89 Attacks on the ports and portlets along the south coast of England. |