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单词 castlet
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castletn.

Etymology: A variant of castellet n., assimilated to castle n.: see -et suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcastlet.
A small castle.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > small castle
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a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1712) VIII. 63 Ther was in it a Castlet of Stone and Brike.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 587 It hath in this Moreland Careswell a Castlet situate upon it.
1813 ‘Æditus’ Metrical Remarks 22 These walls so thick,..With castlets by their sides, squat shapeless things.
1907 E. H. Coleridge Hist. Poem i, in S. T. Coleridge Christabel 24 Triermain..Castle..must have been but a ‘castlet’ compared with Naworth.
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