Helen Fenton

Chap: Definition and part of speech

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Chap

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Chaparral: Definition and part of speech

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Chaparral

  1. n. An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
  2. n. A thicket of low evergreen oaks.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Chapbook: Definition and part of speech

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Chapbook

  1. n. Any small book carried about for sale by chapmen or hawkers. Hence, any small book; a toy book.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Chape: Definition and part of speech

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Chape

  1. n. The metal plate or tip which protects the end of a scabbard, belt, etc.
  2. n. The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
  3. n. The transverse guard of a sword or dagger.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.