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- verb Present participle of
chapel .
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-- true religion, too, for these Lestrigonians were most seriously in earnest in their chapelling.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
chained_bear commented on the word chapelling
"Chapelling a ship, the act of turning her round in a light breeze of wind when she is close-hauled, so as that she will lie the same way she did before. This is commonly occasioned by the negligence of the steersman, or by a sudden change of the wind."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 80
October 12, 2008