Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.

Multi-Version Concordance Hamlet (1 Occurrence) 1 Samuel 6:18 and the golden mice -- the number of all the cities of the Philistines -- for the five princes, from the fenced city even unto the hamlet of the villages, even unto the great meadow on which they placed the ark of Jehovah -- 'are' unto this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite. (YLT)