▪ I. chapped, ppl. a.1
(tʃæpt)
Also 6–9 chapt.
[f. chap v. and n.1 + -ed.]
1. Fissured; cracked; as clayey ground in summer, or the hands and lips by exposure to frost.
| c 1460 Towneley Myst. 98 My fyngers ar chappyd. 1549–62 Sternhold & H. Ps. lxv. 9 When that the earth is chapt and dry, and thirsteth more and more. 1611 Bible Jer. xiv. 4. 1783 J. C. Smyth in Med. Commun. I. 205 His hands..were swelled and chapt. 18.. Keats Life (1848) II. 137 Who waits for thee, as the chapp'd earth for rain. Mod. A cure for chapped lips. |
b. slang. Parched, thirsty.
| 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 37 Chap'd, Dry, or Thirsty. 1725 in New Cant. Dict. |
2. Cut small or short; chopped; beaten small.
| 1730 Thomson Autumn 404 The ragged furze; Stretch'd o'er the stony heath, the stubble chapt. a 1776 in Herd Sc. Songs II. 79 (Jam.) With chapped kail. |
▪ II. chapped, ppl. a.2
(tʃæpt)
[f. chap n.2 + -ed2.]
Having a chap or jaw: chiefly in comb.
| a 1678 Marvell To coy Mistress, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow chap'd power. 1725 Bailey Erasm. Colloq. 33 Yon dainty chapp'd Fellow. |