noun a small chapel or shrine.
2. chaplet ·noun a chapelet. ·see chapelet, 1.
3. chaplet ·noun a tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.
4. chaplet ·vt to adorn with a chaplet or with flowers.
5. chaplet ·noun a garland or wreath to be worn on the head.
6. chaplet ·noun a small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, ·etc.
7. chaplet ·noun a bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mold.
8. chaplet ·noun a string of beads, or part of a string, used by roman catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.