† chapeletn.1
Obsolete.
A little chapel, oratory, or shrine.
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1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. ii. i. 56 There is..a litle chappellet hard by on that common.
1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xvii. 223 Many private oratories or chaplets.
1653 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. 388 Ye set up a chapplet or shrine with an image in it.
1675 W. Cave Antiquitates Apostolicæ 65 There were..multitudes of Silver Cabinets, or Chappelets, little Shrines, made in fashion of the Temple.
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chapeletn.2
1. (See quot.)
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 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.
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. ; 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’.
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1874 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.
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