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 chap /ˈʧæp/
 小夥子,顎,龜裂(vt.)(vi.)皸裂

 chap /ˈʧæp/ 動詞
 頰,腮,皸裂

 Chap v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chapped p. pr. & vb. n. Chapping.]
 1. 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.   --Blackmore.
    Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.   --Lyly.
 2. To strike; to beat. [Scot.]

 Chap, v. i.
 1. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
 2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.]

 Chap, n.
 1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
 2. A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.]
    Many clefts and chaps in our council board.   --T. Fuller.
 3. A blow; a rap. [Scot.]

 Chap n.
 1. One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings.
    His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.   --Cowley.
    He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the chaps.   --Shak.
 2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.

 Chap n.
 1. A buyer; a chapman. [Obs.]
    If you want to sell, here is your chap.   --Steele.
 2. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.]

 Chap, v. i.  To bargain; to buy. [Obs.]
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 chap
      n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at
           the door"; "he's a likable cuss" [syn: fellow, feller,
            lad, gent, fella, blighter, cuss]
      2: a long narrow depression in a surface [syn: crevice, cranny,
          crack, fissure]
      3: a crack in a lip caused usually by cold
      4: (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
      v : crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather"
      [also: chapping, chapped]