单词 | castlet |
释义 | castletn. A small castle. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > small castle castelletc1320 pilec1400 peelc1450 chateleta1513 castleta1552 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1552 |
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