rare. [f. as prec. + -LET.] A very small fish.
1886. Phil Robinson, In Osman Digna’s Garden, in Contemporary Review, XLIX. June, 856. With hand nets we might have filled a boat in an hour with little crab-like things, queer fishlets and marine miscellanies, to which I have no intention of venturing a name.
1890. Quarterly Review, CLXXI. July, 221. On their long journey by land and water, often extending over several weeks, the fishlets are fed from time to time with yolk of egg.
