Chap (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chapping.] [See Chop to cut.]
1.
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
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.
[Scot.]
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Chap, v. i.
1.
To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
2.
To strike; to knock; to rap.
[Scot.]
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Chap, n. [From Chap, v. t. & i.]
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.
[Obs.]
Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
T. Fuller.
3.
A blow; a rap.
[Scot.]
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Chap (?), n. [OE. chaft; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel kjaptr jaw, Sw. Kaft, D. kiaeft; akin to G. kiefer, and E. jowl. Cf. Chops.]
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.
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Chap (?), n. [Perh. abbreviated fr. chapman, but used in a more general sense; or cf. Dan. kiaeft jaw, person, E. chap jaw.]
1.
A buyer; a chapman.
[Obs.]
If you want to sell, here is your chap.
Steele.
2.
A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
[Colloq.]
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Chap, v. i. [See Cheapen.]
To bargain; to buy.
[Obs.]
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