Definitions for: Chap


[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
[n] a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
[n] a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"
[n] a long narrow depression in a surface
[v] crack due to dehydration, as of skin or lips; "My lips chap in this dry weather"



Webster (1913) Definition: Chap (ch[a^]p or ch[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chapped
(ch[a^]pt or ch[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Chapping.] [See
Chop to cut.]
1. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause
the skin of to crack or become rough.

Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, Crack
the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
--Blackmore.

Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. --Lyly.

2. To strike; to beat. [Scot.]


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

2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.]


Chap, n. [From Chap, v. t. & i.]
1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth,
or in the skin.

2. A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.]

Many clefts and chaps in our council board. --T.
Fuller.

3. A blow; a rap. [Scot.]


Chap (ch[o^]p), n. [OE. chaft; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel
kjaptr jaw, Sw. K["a]ft, D. ki[ae]ft; akin to G. kiefer, and
E. jowl. Cf. Chops.]
1. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; --
commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and
colloquially of human beings.

His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
--Cowley.

He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the
chaps. --Shak.

2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.


Chap (ch[a^]p), n. [Perh. abbreviated fr. chapman, but
used in a more general sense; or cf. Dan. ki[ae]ft jaw,
person, E. chap jaw.]
1. A buyer; a chapman. [Obs.]

If you want to sell, here is your chap. --Steele.

2. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.]


Chap, v. i. [See Cheapen.]
To bargain; to buy. [Obs.]

Synonyms: blighter, crack, cranny, crevice, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, fissure, gent, lad

See Also: cleft, crack, crack, crevice, depression, dog, fissure, impression, imprint, leg covering, legging, legin, male, male person, scissure

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