释义 |
ˈcastlet [A var. of castellet, assimilated to castle: see -et1.] A small castle.
1538Leland Itin. (T.) There was in it a castlet of stone and brick. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 587 It hath in this Moreland Carswell a Castlet situate upon it. 1813‘ædituus’ Metrical Remarks 22 These walls so thick,..With castlets by their sides, squat shapeless things. 1907E. H. Coleridge in S. T. Coleridge Christabel 24 Triermain Castle must have been but a ‘castlet’ compared with Naworth. |