chap

A man, a fellow.

• Who’s that chap over there?

A customer, a buyer.UKdialectal

• If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.

A child.Southern-US

Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.intransitive

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.transitive

• Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
• whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.

To strike, knock.Northern-EnglandScotland

• And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.
• The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]

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

A division; a breach, as in a party.obsolete

• Many clefts and chaps in our council board.

A blow; a rap.Scotland

The jaw.archaicin-pluraloften

• This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
• His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood.

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

Obsolete form of chop (“Asian seal used on documents”).alt-ofobsolete

Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).Internetabbreviationalt-of