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单词 arrowlet slit
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arrowlet slit
1. A narrow vertical opening in the wall of a castle or other fortified building for shooting or looking through or to admit light and air; = arrow slit n. at arrow n. Compounds 2. Also more fully arrowlet hole, arrowlet slit, etc. Obsolete.
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1837 H. Duesbury Suppl. Number to Rayner's Haddon Hall Elevation of a portion of the Battlement and cornice, the arrowlet holes, and small arches, are cut quite through.
1841 A. Beesley Hist. Banbury 102 A square tower with battlements, gurgoyles [sic], and arrowlets.
1877 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Mar. 320/2 Arrowlet slits or lights pierce the walls of the staircase at intervals.
1919 Caledonian Oct. 273/1 The turrets have arrowlet windows.
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