Thesaurus: chap

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1. v. t. To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
2. v. t. To strike; to beat.
3. v. i. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
4. v. i. To strike; to knock; to rap.
5. n. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
6. n. A division; a breach, as in a party.
7. n. A blow; a rap.
8. 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.
9. n. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
10. n. A buyer; a chapman.
11. n. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.
12. v. i. To bargain; to buy.