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   Chap , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chapped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chapping.] [See Chop to cut.]
   To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
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   Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign,
   Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
   Blackmore.
   
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   Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
   Lyly.
   
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   To strike; to beat. [Scot.]
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   Chap, v. i.
   To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
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   To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.]
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   Chap, n. [From Chap, v. t. & i.]
   A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
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   A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.]
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   Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
   T. Fuller.
   
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   A blow; a rap. [Scot.]
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   Chap , n. [OE. chaft; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel kjaptr jaw, Sw. Käft, D. kiæft; akin to G. kiefer, and E. jowl. Cf. Chops.]
   One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
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   His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
   Cowley.
   
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   He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps.
   Shak.
   
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   One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
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   Chap , n. [Perh. abbreviated fr. chapman, but used in a more general sense; or cf. Dan. kiæft jaw, person, E. chap jaw.]
   A buyer; a chapman. [Obs.]
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   If you want to sell, here is your chap.
   Steele.
   
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   A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.]
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   Chap, v. i. [See Cheapen.] To bargain; to buy. [Obs.]
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