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