chapelers

Noun

chapeler (plural chapelers)

1. A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.
   • There was but little discord between church and chapel, except at treat-times, and on kindred occasions of exceptional excitement; and every Sunday evening church dames, duly equipped with Rippon’s Selection, an unopened pocket-handkerchief, and a sprig of boy’s love, might be seen marching, like...1876, Edward Whitaker, “Tempus est Ludendi”, in Parley Magna. A Novel., volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], page 57
2. A maker of caps.
   • A marked feature of the old trades of London was the minute subdivisions which took place among them: thus there were hatters, cappers, chapelers (makers of caps) and hurers.1909, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, The Story of London, page 301