chaplet

plural chaplets

1. A garland or circlet for the head.

   Her little chambers drip with flower-like red, Her girdles, and the chaplets of her head, Her armlets and her anklets; with her feet She tramples all that winepress of the dead.

   1862-1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Laus Veneris

2. A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
3. archaicA string (of beads), especially when making up five decades of the rosary.

   Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal,[…]

   1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter I, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 14

4. CatholicismA set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.

   The Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary consists of seven sets of Hail Marys.

   1. specificallyCatholicismThe Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.

      People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.

5. biologyA series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
6. A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
7. A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
8. A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
9. alternativeAlternative form of chapelet.

plural chaplets

1. A small chapel or shrine.