chap

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A man or boy; a fellow.
• intransitive verb To cause (the skin) to roughen, redden, or crack, especially as a result of cold or exposure.
• intransitive verb To split or become rough and sore.
• noun A sore roughening or splitting of the skin, caused especially by cold or exposure.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cause to cleave, split, crack, or break in clefts: used of the effect of extreme cold followed by heat on exposed parts of the body, as the hands and lips, and sometimes of similar effects produced in any way on the surface of the earth, wood, etc. Also chop.
• To strike, especially with a hammer or the like; beat.
• To crack; open in slits, clefts, or fissures: as, the earth chaps; the hands chap. Also chop.
• To knock, as at a door; strike, as a clock.
• To choose; choose definitely; select and claim: as, I chap this.
• To fix definitely; accept and agree to as binding; hold to (a proposal, or the terms of a bargain): as, I chaps that; I chap (or chaps) you.
• An abbreviation of chapter.
• noun The act of picking and choosing; selection: as, ‘chap and choice.’ See chap5, transitive verb
• noun A fissure, cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth or in the hands or feet: also used figuratively. Also chop.
• noun A stroke of any kind; a blow; a knock; especially, a tap or rap, as on a door, to draw attention. Also chaup.
• noun A buyer; a chapman.
• noun A fellow; a man or a boy: used familiarly, like fellow, and usually with a qualifying adjective, old, young, little, poor, etc., and loosely, much as the word fellow is.
• To buy or sell; trade: a variant of chop and cheap
• noun An abbreviation of chaplain.
• noun The upper or lower part of the mouth; the jaw: commonly in the plural.
• noun A jaw of a vise or clamp.
• noun plural The mouth or entrance of a channel: as, the chops of the English channel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
• noun One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
• noun A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
• noun obsolete A division; a breach, as in a party.
• noun Scot. A blow; a rap.
• intransitive verb To crack or open in slits.
• intransitive verb Scot. To strike; to knock; to rap.
• transitive verb To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
• transitive verb Scot. To strike; to beat.
• intransitive verb obsolete To bargain; to buy.
• noun obsolete A buyer; a chapman.
• noun colloq. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun dated A man, a fellow.
• noun UK, dialectal A customer, a buyer.
• noun southern US A child.
• noun archaic The jaw (often in plural).
• verb intransitive Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
• verb Scotland To strike, knock.
• noun A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
• noun obsolete A division; a breach, as in a party.
• noun Scotland A blow; a rap.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a boy or man
• noun (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
• noun a long narrow depression in a surface
• verb crack due to dehydration
• noun a crack in a lip caused usually by cold