Chap

[tʃæp]

Definition

(noun.) (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.

(noun.) a crack in a lip caused usually by cold.

(noun.) a boy or man; 'that chap is your host'; 'there's a fellow at the door'; 'he's a likable cuss'; 'he's a good bloke'.

(verb.) crack due to dehydration; 'My lips chap in this dry weather'.

Inputed by Hilary--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

(v. t.) To strike; to beat.

(v. i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.

(v. i.) To strike; to knock; to rap.

(n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

(n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.

(n.) A blow; a rap.

(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.

(n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.

(n.) A buyer; a chapman.

(n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.

(v. i.) To bargain; to buy.

Typist: Sadie

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Crack, split, cleave.

v. n. Crack, open in slits.

n. [1]. Cleft, crack, opening.[2]. Boy, youth, fellow.

Editor: Pedro

Definition

n. a fellow originally a customer from Chapman.—n. Chap′pie a familiar diminutive.

n. generally pl. the jaws.—adj. Chap′fall′en a variant of Chop-fallen (q.v.).

v.i. to crack: to strike of a clock &c.: to knock at a door.—v.t. to fissure.—n. crack: an open fissure in the skin caused by exposure to frost: a knock.—adj. Chap′less.—p.adj. Chapped cracked of a heavy soil in dry weather or of the skin in frost: cut short.—adj. Chap′py.

Editor: Martin