chapn.1
/tʃæp/ 1.
a. An open fissure or crack in a surface, made by chopping or splitting.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach
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1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cij Theyr skinne is very rowghe, and full of chappes, and riftes.
1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 6 Ground..through the heat of Sommer full of chaps.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 94 Bark of Byrch, which..cleaueth and openeth it selfe into chaps.
1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 117 These great Chaps and Cracks..made in the primitive earth by the strong action of the Sun.
1747 E. M. da Costa in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 397 A Chap or Seam running their whole Length.
b. esp. A painful fissure or crack in the skin, descending to the flesh: chiefly caused by exposure of hands, lips, etc., to frost or cold wind.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > chap or crack
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lxiv. 280 Lepra..makyth chappes, chynnes and clyftes.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxviiv A chappe or chappes beyng in the lyppes tonge, handes and fete in a man.
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iii. xxii. 109 Like the chaps, which are made through a north wind on the lips.
1741 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 4) at Chilblain Chaps,..on the hands; and kibes,..on the heels.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 185/1 The margin..of the mouth, is subject to fissures, chaps, and superficial excoriations.
c. figurative.
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a1661 Fuller in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) There were many clefts and chaps in our council.
2. A stroke, knock, rap. Scottish and northern dialect.
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1786 R. Burns Poems 25 Then Burnewin comes on like Death At ev'ry chap.
1803 J. Jamieson Water Kelpie in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 363 Lie still, ye skrae, There's Water-Kelpie's chap [at door or window].
a1809 Christmas Ba'ing (Jam.) He did na miss the ba' a chap.
3. The act of fixing upon as one's choice; choice, selection. Cf. chap v.1 8. Scottish.
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1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 114 (Jam.) Spare no pains nor care, For chap and choice of suits ye hae them there.
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chapn.2
/tʃæp/ 1. Either of the two bones (with its covering of muscles, skin, etc.) which form the mouth; a jaw; also either half of the bill of a bird.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > jawbones > lower
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1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxii. 196 Take them with your tongs or clampes by the lower chappe.
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. xxvi. 335 [The Crocodile] moueth his vpper chappe.
1686 Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica in Wks iii. i. 85 Broad and thick chaps are required in Birds that speak.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 382 The stork..produces no other noise than the clacking of its under chap against the upper.
c1870 J. G. Murphy Comm. Lev. xi. 18 The pelican [has]..in the under chap a pouch capable of holding many quarts.
2. plural. The jaws as unitedly forming the mouth; the biting and devouring apparatus. Used of animals, esp. beasts of prey; and applied contemptuously or humorously to human beings, in which sense more commonly chop n.2
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > jaws > [noun]
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > chops
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 201 The hooke ouerthwarteth and catcheth hold of his chappes.
1569 A. Golding tr. N. Hemmingsen Postill f. 18 The deliuerer of mankind out of the chappes of the serpent.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God ix. iv. 341 Beeing euen in the chaps of death.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 86 Open your chaps againe. View more context for this quotation
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Q8 To bind up her chaps when she is dead.
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 39 Supping up his Coffee, and scalding his chaps for hast.
1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 6 The hounds with blood about their chaps.
3.
a. The side of the external jaw; the cheek.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [noun]
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cheekOE
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1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body ii. ii. 25 She threatned to slap my Chaps, and told me, I was her Servant, not her Governess.
1718 T. Gordon in Cordial Low-spirits (1750) 50 Bury their faces in mighty periwigs, which inviron either chap.
1845 T. Hood Last Man iii The very sight of his broken orts Made a work in his wrinkled chaps.
1863 B. Taylor Hannah Thurston iii. 40 A coarse, obese man, with heavy chaps.
b. The lower half of the cheek of the pig or other animal as an article of food, as in pickled Bath chaps.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > cheek
chap1870
1870 Daily News 19 Apr. The feast was chaps and eggs.
4. The lower jaw.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > jaws > [noun] > lower
lower or under (nether) jaw1509
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1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 361 The chap should be fine, indicating a disposition to feed.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 238/2 The ‘chap’ or under jaw, is clean, or free from flesh.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > foxglove and allied flowers > snapdragon > part of
chaps1785
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxii. 318 The chaps [of Toadflax] are orange-coloured.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > clamp > vice > parts of
chaps1678
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1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. i. 3 Tongs, to be used for..such thicker work as will be held between their Chaps.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 321/2 The Chaps..of a Vice..are cut rough.
1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 67 The futchels, are..contracted in the front, to receive the pole, which part of the futchels is called the chaps.
1799 Naval Chron. 2 238 Nail up a new pair of chaps on the fore part of the pump for a new handle to be fixed in.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 201 Pinched when red hot between the chaps of a vice.
7. chaps of the Channel: see chop n.2 4b.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > English Channel > entrance into
chops of the Channel1692
chaps of the Channel1720
1720 London Gaz. No. 5813/3 Ships in the Chaps of the Channel.
Compounds
General attributive. See also chap-fallen adj.
chap-band n.
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1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry (1668) i. ii. 24 Put upon his [a horse's] Head a gentle Cavezan..with a chap-band underneath.
chap-choke n.
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1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. Fv Thou shalt straight to Bridewell... Liue vpon bread and water, and chap choake.
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chapn.3
/tʃap/, U.S. /tʃæp/ Chiefly colloquial.† 1. A buyer or purchaser, a customer. Also: a person who buys goods for resale, esp. as an occupation; a retailer, distributor, or dealer. Obsolete (chiefly Scottish and English regional in later use).
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society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun]
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vendee1547
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1701 Interest of Eng. in Relation to Woollen Manufacture 20 This is impossible, if the true Prices are sent to London, for then a Country Chap cannot Buy Cheaper, except a Clothier will Sell his Goods at a Rate little better than giving them away.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. i. 229 I had a meeting with my Chaps, and..told them what the current Price was in Town for every Species of my Goods.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. 79 When I speak of a Chapman, I would be understood to mean any Person that wants a good Horse for his own riding, not those Chapmen who buy to sell again; for these Chaps look no farther than the present.
1764 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) II. 66 Perhaps Mrs. Mead would buy..but she would be a hard chap.
1805 Ann. Rev. 3 619 The pedlar has but a faint interest in the good opinion of his chap.
1827 W. Scott Two Drovers in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xiv. 330 Harry Wakefield was lucky enough to find a chap for a part of his drove.
1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. Chap, a dealer, a purchaser. ‘I hae some bacon to sell, can you find me a chap for 't.’
2. Chiefly British.
a. A man, a male person; a fellow.Also occasionally used humorously to refer to a woman or a female person, esp. one characterized as unfeminine (cf. quot. 1768). In early use frequently somewhat contemptuous; N.E.D. (1889) described it as ‘now merely familiar and non-dignified, being chiefly applied to a young man’.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun]
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1704 J. Ozell tr. Molière Monsieur de Pourceaugnac i. ii. 5 Faith, here comes my Chap [F. notre homme].
1716 M. Davies Diss. Physick 46 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The Names of those Country-Chaps be, Absyrtus, etc.
c1750 J. Nelson Jrnl. (1836) 89 Another [Oxford man] said, ‘These chaps belong to poor Wesley.’
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 30 Nought wad do But I maun gang that bony chap to woo.
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) If the phrase be..simply, ‘a chap’, it usually designates a person, of whom a contemptuous opinion is entertained.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. xv. 35 You air smart enough; quite a spunky chap, Watty Harrood.
1893 L. Meade Jill ix. 121 Now do be quick, there's a good chap.
1974 Guardian 5 Mar. 10/5 He really is an awfully clever chap.
2010 Private Eye 28 May 27/2 The poor chap never had a chance.
b. A friendly form of address for a man or boy. Chiefly used between men and boys and frequently with modifying word, in phrases such as old chap (see old chap n. 1), (my) dear chap, etc. Also in plural as a form of address to a group of people (originally exclusively male, later sometimes mixed).
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1818 Morning Herald 5 Feb. Well my old chap, where are you going.
1837 Fife Herald 26 Jan. 192/1 Dear chap, how are you now?
1893 W. Black Handsome Humes (1894) xxiv. 275 I would rather wait—if you don't mind, my good chap.
1904 Chelmsford Chron. 17 June Come along chaps, we are not going to have this.
1982 ‘M. Spillane’ Ship that Never Was iii. 30 Don't worry, chap. The owner gave it to me.
2002 Daily Mail 18 May 41/2 She's a natural Girl Guide—always looking on the bright side, keeping her chin up and saying: ‘Come on chaps, we can't give in now.’
2013 M. Lawson Deaths iv. 126 ‘Look, my dear chap,’ says Max, ‘We're terribly worried about keeping you from your bed.’
c. With a. Any man; anyone, one (but chiefly with reference to males only). Often alluding to the speaker himself.
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1835 Star & Republican Banner (Gettysburg, Pa.) 29 June Can you give a chap a lift as far as Reading, for a shilling?
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles I. xx. 247 You might give a chap a civil answer.
1916 Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 8 Feb. 5/1 Why can't they let a chap sleep?
1961 W. R. Loader Test. Runner v. 64 What do you think I should do? I mean, how does a chap become a good runner?
2009 Times 1 May 36/4 Well, I mean, what's a chap to do?
3. Chiefly British. A boyfriend; a male lover, sweetheart, or sexual partner. Chiefly with possessive adjective.
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1831 Proc. Old Bailey 6 Jan. 207/1 She then burst out crying again, stamped her hand on the table, and said, ‘Oh, my poor chap. I would not split for one hundred guineas’..I understood her to mean she would not confess upon her paramour, or her young man.
1850 H. Mayhew in Morning Chron. 29 Jan. 3 I have seen girls of 15 sleep with ‘their chaps’—in some places with youths of from 18 to 20.
a1901 W. Besant Five Years' Tryst (1902) 271 His brother he knew was in the gallery with his sweetheart; his sister was there as well with her chap.
1934 Sport (Adelaide) 22 Mar. 8/6 She said to her chap, ‘If you marry me, Jack, I'll be good to warm your cold feet on.’
2020 Daily Express 4 Nov. 15/4 Now Jacqui has vowed to keep dancing with her new chap.
4. A boy, a lad. Also (chiefly U.S. regional (southern) and Irish English): a young child or baby regardless of gender.
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1833 Irish Monthly Mag. Feb. 680 You see, when I was a chap my father had a great notion of making a scholar of me.
1881 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 11 Jan. in C. Clemens Mark Twain (1932) 37 There's a new baby downstairs [sc. the writer's daughter]. Little chaps like that, can't be comfortable on long journeys.
1953 R. Davis Shim iii. 45 He was just a chap when, visiting with Miss Cherry over in Mooresville in the next county, Aunt Em had taken them to a concert.
2013 R. D. Lesslie Notes from Doctor's Pocket xi. 53 Something my grandmother told me when I was just a chap.
5. Chiefly British. Used to refer to an animal or thing. Often affectionate, humorous, or ironic.
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1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly xli, in Examiner 22 Dec. 1615/1 We were never tired of watching the tricks and attitudes of this friendly little chap [sc. a chipmunk].
1890 Amer. Garden Sept. 529/2 And what a tough little chap it [sc. a cactus] is!
1918 W. A. Dyer Dogs of Boytown v. 69 Handsome chap, isn't he? Nice, intelligent dog, too.
1962 P. Smythe Jumping round World iii. 55 There were bellbirds and wax eyes—cheeky little chaps with a white ring round each eye.
2010 M. Willett Children's Hour xxv. 286 His tail beat hopefully against Georgie's chair...‘You are a big chap,’ she said admiringly.
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chapn.4
= chap-book n.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > books as sold > [noun] > book sold by itinerant dealers
chap-book1824
stall-literature1834
stationery literature1851
chap1883
subscription book1990
1883 Life D. Graham in Wks. I. 72 Among the chaps..were many of a religious character.
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chapv.1
/tʃæp/ I. To remove by chopping.† 1. transitive (with off). To chop off. Obsolete or dialect. [Jamieson mentions chap aff to strike off, and gives chap in some parts of Scotl. = chop, cut into small pieces. Compare also sense 7, and chapped adj.1]
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > cut off
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c1325 Coer de L. 4550 Anon her hedes wer off chappyd.
II. To crack, cause to crack in fissures. (To connect this with the preceding, the transitive sense 3, as if ‘to chop or cut the surface’, ought to be the earlier.)figurative.1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. viii. 170 Heat of passion makes our souls to chappe, and the devil creeps in at the cranies.
2. intransitive. To become fissured, burst into cracks or clefts, as if the surface or skin were chopped by cutting blows.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (intransitive)] > be injured > chap
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chip1855
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > crack, split, or cleave
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c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 339 And yf thai chappe [L. crepent], a stoone under the heed Roote is to doo.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. H So bedawbed, that..she had a viser on her face and dareth not laugh for making it chappe.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie C 319 The earthe chappeth or goeth a sunder for drougth.
1677 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. ii. vi. 239 Nutmeg..is clothed with two Barks, but when it comes to maturity, the uppermost chaps, and lets the second appear.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Earth Claiey or stiff earth..subject to chap during the heat of summer.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 582 Useful when the skin has a tendency to crack or to chap.
3. transitive. To fissure, cause to crack or open in chaps.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure
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sleave-
c1460 [implied in: Towneley Myst. (1836) 98 My fyngers ar chappyd. (at chapped adj.1 1)].
1549–62 [implied in: T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms lxv. 9 When that the earth is chapt and dry, and thirsteth more and more. (at chapped adj.1 1)].
1725 J. Reynolds View of Death vii. 26 The extremely cold winds..chap the timber, and kill the cattle.
1845 Peter Parley's Ann. 196 The earth is chapped with parching.
III. To strike sharply (sometimes with reference to the sound made). northern dialect and Scottish.
4. transitive. To strike. to chap hands: to strike each other's hand in concluding a bargain.
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1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1728) 130 And so chapped him by the host a little, and at an outside watched him.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 120 (Jam.) Syn Lindy has wi Bydby chapped hands They's hae their gear again.
5. transitive and intransitive. To strike, as a clock.
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1652 in Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) App. p. xlii/1 Till the hour chap.
1814 J. Boswell Justic. Opera in R. Chambers Misc. Pop. Scottish Poems (1862) 64 The clock's chappit ten.
1822 E. Irving Let. 5 Nov. in Mrs. Oliphant Life (1862) I. 157 Till four chaps from the Ram's Horn Kirk.
6.
a. intransitive. To knock, rap, at a door.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > so as to produce a sound > knock
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1774 C. Keith Farmer's Ha in R. Chambers Misc. Pop. Scottish Poems (1862) 38 But Morpheus begins to chap, And bids them a' gae tak a nap.
1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 236 O whae is this at my bower door, That chaps sae late?
1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Chap, to knock, rap; at a door.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. 38 ‘Wha's there?..that neither chaps nor ca's?’
b. trans. to chap out: to call one out by rapping or tapping. (Cf. to knock up at knock v. Phrasal verbs.)
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society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > knocking, etc., as signal > knock, etc., as signal [verb (transitive)] > summon (a person) down or out by knocking
to chap out1818
to knock down1881
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 531 Chappin out, is the phrase used in many parts of Scotland to denote the slight tap at the window given by the nocturnal wooer to his mistress.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 3 532 To chap-out some of them is not worth while.
7. To chop or beat small.
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1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (new ed.) I. 37 With chapped Stocks sou butter'd well..
IV. Scottish. [Perhaps not the same word.]
8. To choose, select, bespeak; to fix upon as one's choice. chaps me that! the call of children in laying claim to anything, equivalent to the Lancashire barley (or balla) me! and English schoolboy's bags I. (Hence Galt's incorrect ‘I'll chapse’.)
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1720 A. Ramsay Edinb.'s Salut. to Ld. Carnarvon iv You's hae at will to chap and chuse, For few things am I scant in.
a1806 in R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 299 (Jam.) ‘Hech, husto!’ quo' Habbie, ‘I chaps ye.’
1823 J. Galt Entail I. xix. 162 ‘I'll chapse that place,’ said Walter.
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chapv.2
Obsolete exc. dialect.
To buy; to buy and sell; to barter; to truck. Cf. cheap v.; chop v.2
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society > trade and finance > [verb]
chapa1225
a1225 Juliana 63 [Þu] lettest an of þe tweolue þat tu hefdest icoren chapi þe and sullen.
1483 Cath. Angl. 58/2 To chappe, mercari, negociari.
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Chap, to cheap or cheapen; to bargain or deal for a price.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Chap, to buy and sell, in a chance way.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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v.1c1325v.2a1225- owner-managed
- owner-manager
- owner-occupant
- owner-occupation
- owner-occupied
- owner-occupier
- owner-occupiership
- owner-operator
- ownerbreeder
- ownerdriven
- ownerdriver
- owneress
- ownerfarmer
- ownerfarming
- ownerless
- ownermanaged
- ownermanager
- owneroccupant
- owneroccupation
- owneroccupied
- owneroccupier
- owneroccupiership
- owneroperator
- owners
- ownership