To divide into hamlets; to break up a large settlement into smaller villages or communities.
From 'hamlet' plus '-ize' (to make or cause to be). Creates a verb describing the process of creating hamlet-based settlement patterns.
When medieval landowners hamletized their estates, they were actually making a brilliant economic decision—spreading families out onto marginal land increased total production, even though each family had less.
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