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▪ I. chapping, vbl. n.|ˈtʃæpɪŋ|
[f. chap v.]
1. The fissuring or cracking of the surface; a chap or crack.
1540T. Raynalde Byrth Man. (1564) 53 b, Pushes, chappynges or chynes, which cause great payne. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. x. §1 (1681) 205 Pave it very well with Flints..which preserves the clay..from the chapping of the Wind or Sun at such times as the Pool is empty. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 244 Hair keeps the Mortar from Cracking or Chaping. 1860F. Churchill Midwifery (ed. 4) xxix. 668 Excoriation or ‘chapping’ [of the nipple].
2. Sc. Striking, knocking. chapping stick, a stick to strike with, a weapon of offence.
[1657Chopping-stick: see chopping vbl. n.] 1721Kelly Sc. Prov. 104 (Jam.) Fools should not have chapping sticks. 1815Scott Guy M. vi. 1823Tennant Cdl. Beaton 117 (Jam.) An' I but ance tak up a chappin-stick, I'd fain knap a crown wi't, mair especially a rotten Papist's.
▪ II. ˈchapping, ppl. a.
[f. chap v.1 + -ing2.]
That chaps or breaks in chinks or clefts.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 24 Chapping grounds, chinking, or chauming with Cranies.
2. Breaking in short waves; = chopping ppl. a.
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 32 The wind..blowing hard..caused a chapping sea. |