† chafletn.
Obsolete. rare.
? A scaffold, platform, elevated stage. (Cf. chaselette n.)
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1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur (1817) II. 436 Kynge Arthur dremed a wonderful dreme, & that was this, that hym semed he satte vpon a chaflet in a chayer, and the chayer was fast to a whele.
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