chapped
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“chapped” is listed under Chap.
Chap (chăp or chŏp), transitive verb [past tense & past participle Chapped (chăpt or chŏpt); present participle & verbal noun Chapping.]
Origin: 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.— Sir Richard Blackmore
Nor winter's blast chap her fair face.— John Lyly
2. To strike; to beat. Scottish
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54