arrowletn.

Brit.

/ˈarəʊlᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈɛroʊlət/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: arrow n., -let suffix.

Etymology: < arrow n. + -let suffix. In sense 1 perhaps after eyelet n. (compare sense 3 at that entry).

†1. A narrow vertical opening in the wall of a castle or other fortified building for shooting or looking through or to admit light and air; = arrow slit n. at arrow n. Compounds 2. Also more fully arrowlet hole, arrowlet slit, etc. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > loophole

loop1393

lancet-loupe1562

loophole1591

barbican1600

eyelet hole1774

arrow slit1789

meurtrière1802

murderess1802

shot-hole1819

arrowlet1837

arrow loop1840

eyelet1851

musket-slit1856

cross-oylet1859

shoot-hole1892

1837 H. Duesbury Suppl. Number to Rayner's Haddon Hall Elevation of a portion of the Battlement and cornice, the arrowlet holes, and small arches, are cut quite through.

1841 A. Beesley Hist. Banbury 102 A square tower with battlements, gurgoyles [sic], and arrowlets.

1877 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Mar. 320/2 Arrowlet slits or lights pierce the walls of the staircase at intervals.

1919 Caledonian Oct. 273/1 The turrets have arrowlet windows.

2. A small arrow. Now rare. In quot. 1872 used figuratively of dandelion seeds.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > composite plant > part of plant

flower1530

pale1578

thrum1578

blade1672

floret1672

semi-floscule1720

radius1727

ray1727

semi-floret1729

egret1785

floscule1785

anthodium1812

periclinium1826

pericline1855

chaff-scale1856

phyllary1857

anthode1865

arrowlet1872

1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 64 The flower, That blows a globe of after arrowlets.

1895 Gospel in All Lands Apr. 208/2 The fatal venom in which the arrowlet is dipped.

1920 J. S. Fassett & F. L. Phillips tr. P. Baroja Youth & Egolatry iii. 106 Señor de Loyarte, like those little, chubby-winged cherubs on sacristy ceilings, shakes his arrowlet at me.

2010 D. Nicholas Something Red (2013) xiv. 196 The archers threw small iron arrows at it by hand; they soaked the target in water every day to soften the wood enough to let the arrowlets stick in it.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	arrowlet
释义	arrowletn. Brit. /ˈarəʊlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈɛroʊlət/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: arrow n., -let suffix. Etymology: < arrow n. + -let suffix. In sense 1 perhaps after eyelet n. (compare sense 3 at that entry). †1. A narrow vertical opening in the wall of a castle or other fortified building for shooting or looking through or to admit light and air; = arrow slit n. at arrow n. Compounds 2. Also more fully arrowlet hole, arrowlet slit, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > loophole loop1393 lancet-loupe1562 loophole1591 barbican1600 eyelet hole1774 arrow slit1789 meurtrière1802 murderess1802 shot-hole1819 arrowlet1837 arrow loop1840 eyelet1851 musket-slit1856 cross-oylet1859 shoot-hole1892 1837 H. Duesbury Suppl. Number to Rayner's Haddon Hall Elevation of a portion of the Battlement and cornice, the arrowlet holes, and small arches, are cut quite through. 1841 A. Beesley Hist. Banbury 102 A square tower with battlements, gurgoyles [sic], and arrowlets. 1877 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Mar. 320/2 Arrowlet slits or lights pierce the walls of the staircase at intervals. 1919 Caledonian Oct. 273/1 The turrets have arrowlet windows. 2. A small arrow. Now rare. In quot. 1872 used figuratively of dandelion seeds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > composite plant > part of plant flower1530 pale1578 thrum1578 blade1672 floret1672 semi-floscule1720 radius1727 ray1727 semi-floret1729 egret1785 floscule1785 anthodium1812 periclinium1826 pericline1855 chaff-scale1856 phyllary1857 anthode1865 arrowlet1872 1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 64 The flower, That blows a globe of after arrowlets. 1895 Gospel in All Lands Apr. 208/2 The fatal venom in which the arrowlet is dipped. 1920 J. S. Fassett & F. L. Phillips tr. P. Baroja Youth & Egolatry iii. 106 Señor de Loyarte, like those little, chubby-winged cherubs on sacristy ceilings, shakes his arrowlet at me. 2010 D. Nicholas Something Red (2013) xiv. 196 The archers threw small iron arrows at it by hand; they soaked the target in water every day to soften the wood enough to let the arrowlets stick in it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1837
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