Definitions
1.noun(obsolete outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow."Who’s that chap over there?"
2.nounA customer, a buyer.
3.nounA child.
4.nounA cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
5.nounA division; a breach, as in a party.
6.nounA blow; a rap.
7.verbOf the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
8.verbTo cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
9.verbTo strike, knock.
10.noun(often in the plural) The jaw.
11.nounOne of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
12.noun(authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided."Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter."
13.nounA section of a social or religious body.
14.nounA sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
15.nounA decretal epistle.
16.nounA location or compartment.