† chafletObs.rare. [Cf.OF.chafault, scaffold.] ? A scaffold, platform, elevated stage. (Cf. chaselette.) 1470–85Malory 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.