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chapelling

chapelling is the present participle and gerund of chapel.

Meaning of chapel

Verb

chapel (third-person singular simple present chapels, present participle (US) chapeling or (UK) chapelling, simple past and past participle (US) chapeled or (UK) chapelled)

  1. (transitive) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
    • give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please...

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Questions about chapelling

What is chapelling the present participle and gerund of?
Chapelling is the present participle and gerund of chapel.

Words near chapelling in the dictionary

  1. chapelle ardente
  2. chapelled
  3. chapeller
  4. chapellers
  5. chapelless
  6. chapelling
  7. Chapells
  8. chapelman
  9. chapelmaster
  10. chapelmasters
  11. chapelmen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chapelling (page history and authors); chapel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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