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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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... ordinary sort of chap," Van Teyl continued thoughtfully. "Good sportsman, no doubt, and all that sort of thing, but the last fellow in the world to concoct a yarn, and if he ...
— The Pawns Count • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "I never heard that it was catching, though some people say it runs in families. I hope not, I am sure, as the poor old chap insists upon my sleeping in his room whenever I am at home, as we used to do when ...
— Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales • Henry Rider Haggard
... Burnside's chief of staff, was to command the Ninth Corps, and Major-General George L. Hartsuff was assigned to the Twenty-third. In a former chapter I have spoken of Hartsuff's abilities as a staff officer in West Virginia. [Footnote: Chap, vi., ante.] His qualities as a general officer had not been tried. He was wounded at the beginning of the engagement at Antietam, where he commanded a brigade in Hooker's corps. [Footnote: Chap, xv., ante.] That was his first service under his appointment as brigadier, ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... at the end of the estate. I could show you the place now; it marches with some land that used to belong to an uncle of mine. And you can imagine there was a row; and this man Gawdy (that was the name, to be sure—Gawdy; I thought I should get it—Gawdy), he was unlucky enough, poor chap! to shoot a keeper. Well, that was what Francis wanted, and grand juries—you know what they would have been then—and poor Gawdy was strung up in double-quick time; and I've been shown the place he was buried in, on the north side of the church—you know the way ...
— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary • Montague Rhodes James
... his glass, if it could have been the Ferrises? Mounted? Yes, mounted. Then it was Ferris and his wife—or it might have been Captain Murrell and Miss Malroy the captain was a strapping, black-haired chap who rode a big bay horse. Miss Malroy did not live in that part of the country; she was a friend of Mrs. Ferris', belonged in Kentucky or Tennessee, or somewhere out yonder—at any rate she was bringing her visit to an end, for Ferris had instructed him to reserve a place for her ...
— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester


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