[f. BROOK sb. + -LET: of very modern formation; the earlier equivalent was BROOKET.] A little brook, a rivulet, streamlet.

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1813.  Scott, Trierm., I. v. Such lulling sounds as the brooklet sings.

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1837.  Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), II. xviii. 256. Along the brink of a freshwater brooklet.

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1865.  Livingstone, Zambesi, xxiv. 492. These little brooklets came down from the range on our left.

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