chapel

adjective

1. (in Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

- The village butcher is chapel.

noun

1. a place of worship that has its own altar

Definition categories: man–made

2. a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar

- he was late for chapel

Definition categories: act, service

verb

1. (nautical, 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.