"spearlet" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spear",
        "3": "let"
      },
      "expansion": "spear + -let",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From spear + -let.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spearlets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spearlet (plural spearlets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -let",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "While the poisonous spearlets are now directed largely against rival males, the trait could well have served among ancestral monotremes as the equivalent of a bee’s sting, to ward off the Bigfeet that ever threatened to crush them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small spear."
      ],
      "id": "en-spearlet-en-noun-Jg-cdpdd",
      "links": [
        [
          "spear",
          "spear"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spearlet"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spear",
        "3": "let"
      },
      "expansion": "spear + -let",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From spear + -let.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spearlets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spearlet (plural spearlets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -let",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "While the poisonous spearlets are now directed largely against rival males, the trait could well have served among ancestral monotremes as the equivalent of a bee’s sting, to ward off the Bigfeet that ever threatened to crush them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small spear."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spear",
          "spear"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spearlet"
}