Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small roof or covering.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small roof, covering, or shelter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A small roof or covering.

Etymologies

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roof +‎ -let

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Examples

  • Angry droplets pinged impotently on the metallic rooflet as Jason shook his hair dry and treated himself to another pull-grimace-shiver from the tequila.

    The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003

  • Angry droplets pinged impotently on the metallic rooflet as Jason shook his hair dry and treated himself to another pull-grimace-shiver from the tequila.

    The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003

  • Angry droplets pinged impotently on the metallic rooflet as Jason shook his hair dry and treated himself to another pull-grimace-shiver from the tequila.

    The Deed Keith Blanchard 2003

  • upper joists to half way down of the guttur which is made in the lower joists, overlapping just enough to deliver the water safely into the guttur, these guttur joists, as well as those constituting the ridges of the rooflet have a descent of 6.

    Letters to and from Jefferson, 1825 1825

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