Chapel /(?)/

Chap·el

Chapel

n.
  1. A subordinate place of worship
  2. A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
  3. In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
  4. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
  5. A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. (Print.)

Phrases & Compounds
Chapel of ease
A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church.
Chapel master
a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra.
To build a chapel
to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2.
To hold a chapel
to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests.

Chapel

v. t.
  1. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.]
  2. To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing. (Naut.)