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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
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.]
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.]
Webster 1828 Edition
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Definition 2024
chap
chap
See also: CHAP
English
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- (dated outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess:
- ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
- Who’s that chap over there?
-
- (Britain, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
- Steele
- If you want to sell, here is your chap.
- Steele
- (Southern US) A child.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:man
Derived terms
Descendants
- Pennsylvania German: Tschaepp (“guy”)
Translations
man or fellow
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Etymology 2
Related to chip.
Verb
chap (third-person singular simple present chaps, present participle chapping, simple past and past participle chapped)
- (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
- (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- Blackmore
- Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
- Lyly
- Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.
- Blackmore
- (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 35:
- The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look [...].
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 35:
Derived terms
Translations
of skin: to split or flake
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Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
- (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
- T. Fuller
- Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
- T. Fuller
- (Scotland) A blow; a rap.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Northern English chafts (“jaws”).
Noun
chap (plural chaps)
- (archaic) The jaw (often in plural).
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
- This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
- Cowley
- His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
- Shakespeare
- He unseamed him from the nave to the chaps.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare
- One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.