different between craplet vs chaplet

English

Noun

craplet (plural craplets)

1. Alternative spelling of crapplet

Anagrams

• plectra

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t?æpl?t/, /?t?æpl?t/

Etymology 1

From Old French chapelet.

Noun

chaplet (plural chaplets)

1. A garland or circlet for the head.
2. A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
3. (archaic) A string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
4. (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
   1. (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.

5. A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
6. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
7. A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
8. A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

9. Alternative form of chapelet

Derived terms

• chapleted

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

chaplet (plural chaplets)

1. A small chapel or shrine.

Anagrams

• Pelchat, placeth