CHAP

noun a blow; a rap.

2. chap ·noun a buyer; a chapman.

3. chap ·noun a man or boy; a youth; a fellow.

4. chap ·noun a division; a breach, as in a party.

5. chap ·noun one of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, ·etc.

6. chap ·vi to bargain; to buy.

7. chap ·vi to crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

8. chap ·vt to strike; to beat.

9. chap ·noun a cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

10. chap ·vi to strike; to knock; to rap.

11. chap ·vt to cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

12. 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.