LekhoriLekhoriA customer, a buyer.
If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.
A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
A division; a breach, as in a party.
Many clefts and chaps in our council board.
The jaw.
This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!
One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.
Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).
Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
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.
Initialism of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol.
A surname from Khmer.
From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.
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To strike, knock.
And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.