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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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"Chapped" Quotes from Famous Books



... again into his chair. The mention of Horace's name silenced him. He motioned for the men to be seated, without taking his eyes from Lem. The scowman's clothes were in shreds, and, as he lifted his right arm, Brimbecomb saw the chapped red flesh, strapped to the rusted iron hook. Although Lem had not spoken, the young lawyer noted the silent convulsions going on in the dark, full throat, the unceasing movements ...
— From the Valley of the Missing • Grace Miller White
... The boy's face and hands were so much chapped and cracked with the cold that they bled at times. But he wasted no sympathy on himself. It was the common fate of the army. Jackson and his generals, themselves, suffered in the same way. Jackson was walking, too, for a ...
— The Scouts of Stonewall • Joseph A. Altsheler
... among the rocks, children of the mountains would run forth like sure-footed goats to view the passing train, their round and ruddy cheeks besmeared with dirt and chapped with cold; their flat faces, high cheek bones, and slanting eyes, revealing their ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... mean boy. Meanness seemed to be in his blood. He was all mean. His hair was mean; his freckles were mean; his big, chapped hands were mean. And he was always mean. He was mean to his pets; he was meaner to small boys; and he was as mean as he dared to be to his ...
— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
... the cob fire as she argued, and Elizabeth put away the old mittens with which she had protected her hands from the earth which never failed to leave them chapped, before she picked up the broom and began an onslaught on the red and fluffy dust ...
— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger


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