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noun

Inlet n.

A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance; especially, A narrow waterway leading into a harbor. "Doors and windows, inlets of men and of light."

A bay or recess, as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.

That which is let in or inlaid; an inserted material. Note: Inlet is also used adjectively, as in inlet pipe, inlet valve, etc.

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"Inlet" Quotes from Famous Books

... their brawling streams, feeding on the nuts and berries, and lying for hours asleep beneath the shadows of their branching trees. He was one of the few children into whose mind Amos failed to find an inlet for the catechism; and once, during the past summer, he had blown his wickin-whistle in Sunday-school class, and been reprimanded by the superintendent because he gathered blackberries ...

— Lancashire Idylls (1898) • Marshall Mather

... very shortly after in a neighbouring inlet. We had kept her about six months, and every moment she was becoming more familiar; we had dubbed her Finna, and she seemed to know her name. Every one that saw her was ...

— Heads and Tales • Various

... flood of unspeakable sorrow overspread my heart, and quite overwhelmed my spirit.... My fatigue had been great; I was barely recovered from my fever, and this stroke so tore my nerves that it was an inlet to much temptation. In former parts of my life I have felt deep sorrow, but such were now my feelings that no words I am able to think of can convey an adequate ...

— Fletcher of Madeley • Brigadier Margaret Allen

... at Ticonderoga that the Americans had prepared to make their first stand. The place lies on the western shore of the lake a few miles to the northward of the narrow inlet uniting Lake Champlain to Lake George. It was to reconnoiter the fort that the party now set out. News had been brought that the Americans had been executing great additional works, and the British general was ...

— True to the Old Flag - A Tale of the American War of Independence • G. A. Henty

... of the inlet sparkled like silver, and over those waters poised the osprey, his rapidly moving wings and fan-spread tail suspending him almost stationary in one spot, while, with eager and far-seeing eyes, he peered into ...

— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele

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