chapping

Verb

chap (third-person singular simple present chaps, present participle chapping, simple past and past participle chapped)

1. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
2. (transitive) 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.1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem
3. (Northern England, Scotland) To strike, knock.
   • And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

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