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Chap   /tʃæp/   Listen
noun
Chap  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. (Obs.) "Many clefts and chaps in our council board."
3.
A blow; a rap. (Scot.)


Chap  n.  
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  n.  
1.
A buyer; a chapman. (Obs.) "If you want to sell, here is your chap."
2.
A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. (Colloq.)


verb
Chap  v. t.  (past & past part. chapped; pres. part. chapping)  
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. (Scot.)


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.)


Chap  v. i.  To bargain; to buy. (Obs.)





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"Chap" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a reply, seems not to have been preserved. The Queen's letter, having been shown to Lord John Russell and copied by him, has hitherto been supposed to be a letter from Lord Melbourne to Lord John Russell. See Walpole's Russell, vol. i., chap. xiii.] ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria
... just an ordinary roustabout chap," grunted Hepton, disgustedly. "I had no orders to follow him, so I didn't take ...
— The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless - The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise • H. Irving Hancock
... no great speaker, but I can tell you plain how I come to be where I am. I was a strongish, rough young chap, and thought about nothing but games. I would fight, play cards, and a lot of more things that we don't want to talk about here. When I married, I drank and thought of nothing but my own self. Once I took ...
— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman
... witness; and when it was ultimately decided who DID see the departed last, and exchanged the last words with them, the lucky parties took upon themselves a sort of sacred importance, and were gaped at and envied by all the rest. One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... would not be seen by his wife; but retired into the wilderness and fixed his tent there, and fasted forty days and forty nights, saying to himself, 'I will not go down to eat or drink till the Lord my God shall look down upon me; but prayer shall be my meat and drink.'" (Protevangelion, chap. i.) ...
— Giotto and his works in Padua • John Ruskin


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