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Chapelet vs Chaplet - What's the difference?

chapelet | chaplet |

As nouns the difference between chapelet and chaplet

is that chapelet is a pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider while chaplet is a garland or circlet for the head.

chapelet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pair of straps, with stirrups, joined at the top and fastened to the pommel or the frame of the saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider.
  • A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    chaplet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A garland or circlet for the head.
  • A string of beads, especially when making up five decades of the rosary.
  • * Longfellow
    • her chaplet of beads and her missal
  • A moulding in the form of a string of beads; a bead-moulding.
  • A small chapel or shrine.
  • A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
  • A tuft of feathers on a peacock's head.
    • (Johnson)

    Derived terms

    * chapleted