Found 3 items, similar to chap.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: chap
merekah
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: chap
chap
v : crack due to dehydration;
“My lips chap in this dry weather”
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chapping,
chapped]
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
[also:
chapping,
chapped]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Chap
Chap
\Chap\ (ch[o^]p), n. [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.
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His chaps were all besmeared with crimson blood.
--Cowley.
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He unseamed him [Macdonald] from the nave to the
chaps. --Shak.
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2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vise, etc.
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Chap
\Chap\ (ch[a^]p or ch[o^]p), v. t. [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.
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Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign,
Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
--Blackmore.
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Nor winter's blast chap her fair face. --Lyly.
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2. To strike; to beat. [Scot.]
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Chap
\Chap\ (ch[a^]p), n. [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.]
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If you want to sell, here is your chap. --Steele.
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2. A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.]
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Chap
\Chap\, v. i.
1. To crack or open in slits; as, the earth chaps; the hands
chap.
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2. To strike; to knock; to rap. [Scot.]
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Chap
\Chap\, v. i. [See
Cheapen.]
To bargain; to buy. [Obs.]
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Chap
\Chap\, n. [From
Chap, v. t. & i.]
1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth,
or in the skin.
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2. A division; a breach, as in a party. [Obs.]
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Many clefts and chaps in our council board. --T.
Fuller.
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3. A blow; a rap. [Scot.]
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