rare. [-ET.] A small steeple.
1845. Examiner & Herald (Lancaster, PA), 19 March, 1/1.
| Yet, only, to depart, from hence, they thro’ the village come, | |
| As the last solar ray reclines upon the steeplet’s dome. |
1891. R. B. S. Knowles, Glencoonoge, I. 166. I … saw the pretty steeplet of his church, and loved it for the picturesque finish it gave to the changing foliage out of which it rose, my first instinct invariably was to think the rector a lucky man.
