bridgelet

English

Etymology

From bridge +‎ -let.

Noun

bridgelet (plural bridgelets)

1. (uncommon) A small bridge.
   • 1867, Donald Grant Mitchell, “Landscape Treatment of Railways”, in Rural Studies: with Hints for Country Places, Charles Scribner & Co., page 155:

     […] and (if convenience of pathway require it) stretching upon either side of a bridgelet, across the chasm of the road.

   • 1887 July, Louise Imogen Guiney, “The Water-Ways of Portsmouth”, in The Atlantic Monthly‎^[1], volume LX, number CCCLVII, page 17:

     But the pent currents, made for fights; the bridgelets, with their weedy and barnacled columns, daggers to unwary fingers; […]

   • 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:

     Bony bridgelet confines tendons in front.

   • 1894, “Of A “Predestined” Husband” (chapter XVII), in The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, pages 34-35:

     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; […]