Meaning of chapeler | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of a religious sect in the 18th and 19th centuries that questioned the legitimacy of the priesthood.
2. A maker of caps.

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Examples

“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⟳ any chapelers, to Zoar.”

““Do not be annoyed,” writes the editor of The Homilist to his son, “by the idle gossip and stupid prejudice of chapelers.[…]””

““Parson Budd be a tremendous Church-of-Englander, so I heard squire say⟳. He ’ve got his knife into all chapelers an’ free-thinkers an’ such like⟳.””

“He said he would get⟳ his own⟳ back on the ‘chapelers,’ and die⟳.”

“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.”

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