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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chap \Chap\ (ch[o^]p), noun [OE. chaft; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel kjaptr jaw, Sw. K["a]ft, D. ki[ae]ft; akin to G. kiefer, and E. jowl. Cf. {Chops}.]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chap \Chap\ (ch[a^]p or ch[o^]p), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Chapped} (ch[a^]pt or ch[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Chapping}.] [See {Chop} to cut.]
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chap \Chap\ (ch[a^]p), noun [Perh. abbreviated fr. chapman, but used in a more general sense; or cf. Dan. ki[ae]ft jaw, person, E. chap jaw.]
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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chap \Chap\, verb (used without an object)
1. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands chap.
2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chap \Chap\, verb (used without an object) [See {Cheapen}.] To bargain; to buy. [Obs.] ||
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Chap \Chap\, noun [From {Chap}, verb (used with an object) & i.]
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.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
chap
noun
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
verb: crack due to dehydration; "My lips chap in this dry weather" [also: {chapping}, {chapped}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "chap": Adamite, abysm, abyss, arroyo, bastard, being, bird, bloke, body, box canyon, boy, bozo, breach, break, buck, buddy, bugger, canyon, cat, cavity, character, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, cove, crack, cranny, creature, crevasse, crevice, customer, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, duck, earthling, excavation, fault, feller, fellow, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gazebo, gee, geezer, gent, gentleman, gorge, groove, groundling, gulch, gulf, gully, guy, hand, he, head, hole, homo, human, human being, incision, individual, jasper, joint, joker, kloof, lad, leak, life, living soul, man, moat, mortal, nose, notch, nullah, old boy, one, opening, party, pass, passage, person, personage, personality, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, single, slit, slot, somebody, someone, soul, split, stud, tellurian, terran, trench, valley, void, wadi, worldling
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
CHAP {Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
CHAP [PPP] Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (PPP, RFC 1334/1994)
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