chainlet

English

Etymology

From chain +‎ -let.

Noun

chainlet (plural chainlets)

1. A small chain.
   • 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     What plumage waved the altar round ,
     How spurs and ringing chainlets sound

   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Shirley. A Tale. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC:

     Her pure white dress, her fair arms and neck, the trembling chainlet of gold circling her throat, and quivering on her breast, glistened strangely amid the obscurity of the sickroom.

2. A chain (totally ordered set) that has a finite number of elements.

Translations

a small chain

• Russian: цепо́чка (ru) f (cepóčka)
• Ukrainian: ціпо́к (uk) (cipók), ланцюжо́к (lancjužók)

References

• “chainlet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• cathelin, chat line, chatline, ethnical