Chaplet
- n. A small chapel or shrine.
- n. A garland or wreath to be worn on the head.
- n. A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.
- n. A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.
- n. A chapelet. See Chapelet, 1.
- n. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.
- n. A tuft of feathers on a peacock’s head.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.