chap

chap has 17 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

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