Chap

·noun A blow; a rap.

II. Chap ·noun A buyer; a chapman.

III. Chap ·noun A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.

IV. Chap ·noun A division; a breach, as in a party.

V. Chap ·noun One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, ·etc.

VI. Chap ·vi To Bargain; to Buy.

VII. Chap ·vi To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

VIII. Chap ·vt To Strike; to Beat.

IX. Chap ·noun A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

X. Chap ·vi To Strike; to Knock; to Rap.

XI. Chap ·vt To cause to open in slits or chinks; to Split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

XII. Chap ·noun One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw;

— commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.