1. Verb
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
2. Verb
To strike; to beat.
3. Verb
To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
4. Verb
To strike; to knock; to rap.
5. Noun
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
6. Noun
A division; a breach, as in a party.
7. Noun
A blow; a rap.
8. 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.
9. Noun
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
10. Noun
A buyer; a chapman.
11. Noun
A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
12. Verb
To bargain; to buy.
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