Obs. nonce-wd. [f. CHANNEL sb.1 + -ET dim. suffix. Cf. mod.F. chanelette, in technical use.] A little or tiny channel.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, IV. v. 82. Some onely counted the grand and solemn ostiaries of Nilus … whiles others cast all his chanelets (rather cuts than courses) into the number.
