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Webster 1913 Edition

Chap

Chap

(chăp or chŏp)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Chapped
(chăpt or chŏpt)
;
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.]

Chap

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To crack or open in slits;
as, the earth
chaps
; the hands
chap
.
2.
To strike; to knock; to rap.
[Scot.]

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.
[Obs.]
Many clefts and
chaps
in our council board.
T. Fuller.
3.
A blow; a rap.
[Scot.]

Chap

(chŏp)
,
Noun.
[OE.
chaft
; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel
kjaptr
jaw, Sw.
Käft
, D.
kiæft
; 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
.
Shakespeare
2.
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.

Chap

(chăp)
,
Noun.
[Perh. abbreviated fr.
chapman
, but used in a more general sense; or cf. Dan.
kiæft
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.]

Chap

,
Verb.
I.
[See
Cheapen
.]
To bargain; to buy.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Chap

CHAP

,
Verb.
T.
To cleave, split, crack, or open longitudinally, as the surface of the earth, or the skin and flesh of the hand. Dry weather chaps the earth; cold dry winds chap the hands.

CHAP

,
Verb.
I.
To crack; to open in long slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

CHAP

,
Noun.
A longitudinal cleft, gap or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the hands or feet.

CHAP

,
Noun.
The upper and lower part of the mouth; the jaw. It is applied to beasts, and vulgarly to men; generally in the plural, the chaps or mouth.

CHAP

,
Verb.
I.
To cheapen.

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