chap

A man, a fellow.

Who’s that chap over there?

“Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”

A customer, a buyer.

If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.

A child.

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.

Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.

whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.

To strike, knock.

And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.

The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

A division; a breach, as in a party.

Many clefts and chaps in our council board.

A blow; a rap.