Chap
Chap (chap or chop) , transitive verb
[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.
Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
2.
To strike; to beat. [Scottish]
Chap , intransitive verb
1.
To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
2.
To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scottish]
Chap , noun
[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. [Obsolete]
Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
3.
A blow; a rap. [Scottish]
Chap (chop) , noun
[Old English chaft; of Scand. origin; compare Icel kjaptr jaw, Swedish Kaft, Dutch kiaft; akin to German kiefer, and English jowl. Compare 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.
He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps.
2.
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
Chap (chap) , noun
[Perh. abbreviated from chapman, but used in a more general sense; or compare Danish kiaft jaw, person, English chap jaw.]
1.
A buyer; a chapman. [Obsolete]
If you want to sell, here is your chap.
2.
A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloquial]
Chap , intransitive verb
[See Cheapen.]
To bargain; to buy. [Obsolete]