Chap

Definition of Chap

Pronunciation: chǒp

v. t.	1.	To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. [imp. & p. p. Chapped (chăpt or chǒpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Chapping.] Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain. - Blackmore. Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. - Lyly.
	2.	To strike; to beat.
v. i.	1.	To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
	2.	To strike; to knock; to rap.
n.	1.	A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
	2.	A division; a breach, as in a party. Many clefts and chaps in our council board. - T. Fuller.
	3.	A blow; a rap.
	1.	One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; - commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings. His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood. - Cowley. He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps. - Shak.
	2.	One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
	1.	A buyer; a chapman. If you want to sell, here is your chap. - Steele.
	2.	A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
v. i.	1.	To bargain; to buy.

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