[f. LAKE sb.4 + -LET.] A small lake. Also transf.

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1796.  W. Marshall, W. England, I. 13. Dosmary Pool, a small lakelet … lies among the mountains.

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1865.  Livingstone, Zambesi, xix. 393. The fine fish which abound in the lakelet.

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1883.  Stevenson, Silverado Sq. (1886), 81. A little white lakelet of fog would be seen far down in Napa Valley.

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