- (n.) A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
- (v.t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
- (v.i.) To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
- (n.) A blow; a rap.
- (n.) A cleft, crack or chink, as in the surface of the earth or in the skin.
- (v.i.) To strike; to knock; to rap.
- (v.i.) To bargain; to buy.
- (n.) A division; a breach, as in a party.
- (n.) A buyer; a chapman.
- (n.) One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
- (v.t.) To strike; to beat.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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