Chap

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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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