An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

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. B.
Ross.

CHAP, s. A shop.
Many.

CHAPIN, s. Chopin, a quart, S.
Shirrefs.

CHAPYT,
V. [Chaipe].

CHAPMAN, s. A pedlar, a hawker, S., a merchant, O. E.
Statist. Acc.