chaplet

noun10

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
2. •
   A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
3. •
   A 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.
4. •
   The 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. •
   A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
6. •
   A small chapel or shrine.
7. •
   A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
8. •
   A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
9. •
   A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
10. •
    (no longer used) A 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