What is a small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden. See Village called?
hamlet — A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden. See Village. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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