Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
chap , 2.
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Examples
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Draw, Bardolph; cut mc off the villain's head; throw the quean in the chaup - nel.
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... 1793
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Then burnewin came on like death, At every chaup, etc.] “A quarrel! no, father,” replied the Perth armourer,
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At every chaup, etc.] "A quarrel! no, father," replied the Perth armourer, "but a measuring of swords with such a one upon St. Leonard's Crags, for the honour of my bonny city, I confess.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801
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