chap

/tʃæp/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.
A customer, a buyer.
A child.
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
A division; a breach, as in a party.
A blow; a rap.
Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
To strike, knock.
(often in the plural) The jaw.
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
A section of a social or religious body.
A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
A decretal epistle.
A location or compartment.

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