chapt
English
Noun
chapt (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of chapter.
Etymology 2
chap + -t
Adjective
chapt (comparative more chapt, superlative most chapt)
- Obsolete form of chapped.
- a remedy for chapt lips
- c. 1650, Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress:
- Now therefore, while the youthful hue / Sits on thy skin like morning dew, / And while thy willing soul transpires / At every pore with instant fires, / Now let us sport us while we may, / And now, like amorous birds of prey, / Rather at once our time devour / Than languish in his slow-chapt power.
Anagrams
- Patch, p'tcha, patch