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Fr. _chandelier_, a branch for holding candles, used obliquely.
Grose mentions _chaundler_.
~Chanler-Chafted~, _adj._ Lantern-jawed; having chops like a _chandler_ or candlestick, S. B.
_Journal Lond._
CHANNEL, _s._ Gravel, S. (synon. _chad_) perhaps from _channel_, the bed of a river.
V. ~Chingle~.
~Channelly~, _adj._ Gravelly, S.
_Statist. Acc._
_To_ CHANNER, _v. n._ To fret, to be in a chiding humour, S.
_Minstrelsy Border._
CHANOS, _adj._ Gray.
V. ~Canois~.
_Douglas._
CHANTERIS, _s. pl._ Laics endowed with ecclesiastical benefices.
_Bannatyne Poems._
CHAP, _s._
1. A fellow; a contemptuous term; sometimes _chappie_, or "little _chap_," S.
_Burns._
2. Like _chield_, it is also applied to a female, S. B.
_Ross._
Su. G. _kaeps_, _keips_, _kaebs_, h.o.m.o servilis conditionis.
_To_ CHAP, _v. a._
1. To strike with a hammer, or any instrument of similar use, S.
Teut. _kapp-en_, incidere; Belg. _schopp-en_, to strike, Sewel.
_To_ ~Chap~ _hands_, to strike hands, especially in concluding a bargain, S.
2. To chop, to cut into small pieces, S.
Teut. _kapp-en_, conscindere minutim.
_To_ ~Chap~ _aff_, to strike off.
Su. G. _kapp-a_, to amputate.
_To_ ~Chap~, _v. n._
1. To strike: "the knock's _chappin_," the clock strikes, S.
2. _To chap at a door_, to knock, to rap, S.
_Sir Egeir._
~Chap~, ~Chaup~, ~Choppe~, s. A stroke of any kind, a blow, S.
_Burns._
Teut. _kip_, ictus; Moes. G. _kaupat-jan_, colaphos ingerere.
2. A tap or rap, S.
_Minstrelsy Border._
Z. Boyd uses _choppe_ in the same sense.
~Chapping-Sticks~, _s._ Any instrument which one uses for striking with, S.
_Kelly._
_To_ CHAP, CHAUP _out_, CHAUPS, _v. a._
1. To fix upon any person or thing by selection, S. Hence the phrase, _Chap ye, chuse ye_.
_Ramsay._
2. Suddenly to embrace a proposal made in order to a bargain; to hold one at the terms mentioned, S.
Belg. _kipp-en_, to choose; which seems only a secondary sense of the v. in Teut. as signifying to lay hold of.
~Chap~, _s._ The act of choosing; _Chap and choice_, great variety, S.
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