Definition of "veinlet" []

• A small or secondary vein, as on the wing of an insect. (noun)

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• "A mile and a half walking almost due north led to a veinlet of copper 30 metres long by 0.30 thick, with an east-west strike, and a dip of"
• "At Makná I was much puzzled by the presence of the porous basalt, which had yielded to the first Expedition a veinlet of"
• "There is such a thing in our national life -- a constant process, although often unrecognized -- as social anastomosis: the intercommunication by branch of every vein and veinlet of the politico-social body, and thereby the coming into touch of lives apparently alien."