"bridgelet" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From bridge + -let.",
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          "ref": "1867, Donald Grant Mitchell, “Landscape Treatment of Railways”, in Rural Studies: with Hints for Country Places, Charles Scribner & Co., page 155:",
          "text": "[…] and (if convenience of pathway require it) stretching upon either side of a bridgelet, across the chasm of the road.",
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        {
          "ref": "1887 July 5, Louise Imogen Guiney, “The Water-Ways of Portsmouth”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume LX, number CCCLVII, page 17:",
          "text": "But the pent currents, made for fights; the bridgelets, with their weedy and barnacled columns, daggers to unwary fingers; […]",
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          "ref": "1891 February 3, R. W. Shufeldt [aka Robert Wilson Shufeldt], “On the Question of Saurognathism of the Pici, and other Osteological Notes upon that Group”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 128:",
          "text": "Bony bridgelet confines tendons in front.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, “Of A “Predestined” Husband” (chapter XVII), in The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, pages 34-35:",
          "text": "O Colonia, that longest to disport thyself on a long bridge and art prepared for the dance, but that fearest the trembling legs of the bridgelet builded on re-used shavings, lest supine it may lie stretched in the hollow swamp; […]",
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        "A small bridge."
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        "(uncommon) A small bridge."
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  "word": "bridgelet"
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  "etymology_text": "From bridge + -let.",
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          "ref": "1867, Donald Grant Mitchell, “Landscape Treatment of Railways”, in Rural Studies: with Hints for Country Places, Charles Scribner & Co., page 155:",
          "text": "[…] and (if convenience of pathway require it) stretching upon either side of a bridgelet, across the chasm of the road.",
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          "ref": "1887 July 5, Louise Imogen Guiney, “The Water-Ways of Portsmouth”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume LX, number CCCLVII, page 17:",
          "text": "But the pent currents, made for fights; the bridgelets, with their weedy and barnacled columns, daggers to unwary fingers; […]",
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        },
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          "ref": "1891 February 3, R. W. Shufeldt [aka Robert Wilson Shufeldt], “On the Question of Saurognathism of the Pici, and other Osteological Notes upon that Group”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 128:",
          "text": "Bony bridgelet confines tendons in front.",
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        "A small bridge."
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