Chap

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chap \Chap\, n. [From {Chap}, v. t. & i.]
     1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth,
        or in the skin.
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     2. A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.]


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              Many clefts and chaps in our council board. --T.
                                                    Fuller.
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     3. A blow; a rap. [Scot.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chap \Chap\ (ch[o^]p), n. [OE. chaft; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel
     kjaptr jaw, Sw. K[aum]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.
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              His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
                                                    --Cowley.
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              He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the
              chaps.                                --Shak.
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     2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chap \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.
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              Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign,
              Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
                                                    --Blackmore.
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              Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. --Lyly.
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     2. To strike; to beat. [Scot.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chap \Chap\, v. i.
     1. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands
        chap.
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     2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chap \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.]
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              If you want to sell, here is your chap. --Steele.
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     2. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chap \Chap\, v. i. [See {Cheapen}.]
     To bargain; to buy. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chap
       n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at
            the door"; "he's a likable cuss" [syn: {fellow}, {feller},
             {lad}, {gent}, {fella}, {blighter}, {cuss}]
       2: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: {crevice}, {cranny},
           {crack}, {fissure}]
       3: a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
       4: (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
       v : crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather"
       [also: {chapping}, {chapped}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "chap":
     Adamite, abysm, abyss, arroyo, bastard, being, bird, bloke, body,
     box canyon, boy, bozo, breach, break, buck, buddy, bugger, canyon,
     cat, cavity, character, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft,
     cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, cove, crack, cranny,
     creature, crevasse, crevice, customer, cut, cwm, defile, dell,
     dike, ditch, donga, draw, duck, earthling, excavation, fault,
     feller, fellow, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape,
     gash, gazebo, gee, geezer, gent, gentleman, gorge, groove,
     groundling, gulch, gulf, gully, guy, hand, he, head, hole, homo,
     human, human being, incision, individual, jasper, joint, joker,
     kloof, lad, leak, life, living soul, man, moat, mortal, nose,
     notch, nullah, old boy, one, opening, party, pass, passage, person,
     personage, personality, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture,
     scissure, seam, single, slit, slot, somebody, someone, soul, split,
     stud, tellurian, terran, trench, valley, void, wadi, worldling
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CHAP
       [PPP] Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (PPP, RFC 1334/1994)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  CHAP
       
          {Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol}