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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.]

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 chapping
      See chap

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]