trenchletn.
rare.
A small or miniature trench.
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1782 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Norfolk (1787) II. 362 The trenchlets were shoveled, and the banks smoothed.
1793 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 348 By running parallel trenchlets along the face of the slope.
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