Chap: Definition and part of speech

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.

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