chap

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause (the skin) to roughen, redden, or crack, especially as a result of cold or exposure: The headwind chapped the cyclist's lips.
2. v. To split or become rough and sore: skin that chaps easily in winter.
3. n. A sore roughening or splitting of the skin, caused especially by cold or exposure.
4. n. Informal A man or boy; a fellow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cause to cleave, split, crack, or break in clefts: used of the effect of extreme cold followed by heat on exposed parts of the body, as the hands and lips, and sometimes of similar effects produced in any way on the surface of the earth, wood, etc. Also chop.
2. To strike, especially with a hammer or the like; beat.
3. To crack; open in slits, clefts, or fissures: as, the earth chaps; the hands chap. Also chop.
4. To knock, as at a door; strike, as a clock.
5. n. A fissure, cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth or in the hands or feet: also used figuratively. Also chop.
6. n. A stroke of any kind; a blow; a knock; especially, a tap or rap, as on a door, to draw attention. Also chaup.
7. n. The upper or lower part of the mouth; the jaw: commonly in the plural.
8. n. A jaw of a vise or clamp.
9. n. plural The mouth or entrance of a channel: as, the chops of the English channel. Sometimes applied to the capes at the mouth of a bay or harbor: as, the East Chop and West Chop of Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard.
10. n. A buyer; a chapman.
11. n. A fellow; a man or a boy: used familiarly, like fellow, and usually with a qualifying adjective, old, young, little, poor, etc., and loosely, much as the word fellow is.
12. To buy or sell; trade: a variant of chop and cheap
13. To choose; choose definitely; select and claim: as, I chap this.
14. To fix definitely; accept and agree to as binding; hold to (a proposal, or the terms of a bargain): as, I chaps that; I chap (or chaps) you.
15. An abbreviation of chapter.
16. n. The act of picking and choosing; selection: as, ‘chap and choice.’ See chap5, transitive verb
17. n. An abbreviation of chaplain.

Wiktionary

1. n. dated A man, a fellow.
2. n. UK, dialectal A customer, a buyer.
3. n. southern US A child.
4. v. intransitive Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
5. v. Scotland To strike, knock.
6. n. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
7. n. obsolete A division; a breach, as in a party.
8. n. Scotland A blow; a rap.
9. n. archaic The jaw (often in plural).

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a boy or man
2. n. (usually in the plural) leather leggings without a seat; joined by a belt; often have flared outer flaps; worn over trousers by cowboys to protect their legs
3. n. a long narrow depression in a surface
4. v. crack due to dehydration
5. n. a crack in a lip caused usually by cold