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▪ I. † ˈchapelet1 Obs. In 6 chappellet, 7 chappelet, chaplet. [f. chapel + -et1. Cf. It. capelletta: the Fr. form would be chapellette.] A little chapel, oratory, or shrine.
1587Harrison England ii. ii. (1877) i. 56 There is..a litle chappellet hard by on that common. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xvii. 223 Many private oratories or chaplets. 1653Hammond Paraphr. Acts vii. 43 (R.) Ye set up a chaplet or shrine with an image in it. 1675Cave Antiq. Apost. (1702) 71 There were..multitudes of silver cabinets, or chappelets, little shrines, made in fashion of the temple. ▪ II. chapelet2|ˈtʃæpəlɛt| Also chapellet (Webster). [a. F. chapelet, chaplet, variously transferred.] 1. (See quot.)
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Chapelet, in the manege, a couple of stirrup leathers, mounted each of them with a stirrup, and joining at top in a sort of leather buckle, called the head of the chapelet, by which they are made fast to the pummel of the saddle, after being adjusted to the rider's length and bore. 1847in Craig; and in mod. Dicts. 2. Hydraulic Engineering. A chain pump composed of pallets, scoops or buckets attached to an endless chain passing over two axles. So called in French from its resemblance to a rosary or string of beads; whence, also, according to Knight, known as a ‘paternoster pump’.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. ▪ III. chapelet, -eyn(e obs. ff. chaplet, chaplain. |