2. (Naut.) 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.
Note: In Catholic churches, and also in cathedrals and abbey
churches, chapels are usually annexed in the recesses
on the sides of the aisles. --Gwilt.
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. (Print.)
(a) A printing office, said to be so called because
printing was first carried on in England in a chapel
near Westminster Abbey.
(b) An association of workmen in a printing office.
{Chapel of ease}.
(a) 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.
(b) A privy. (Law)
{Chapel master}, a director of music in a chapel; the
director of a court or orchestra.
{To build a chapel} (Naut.), 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.