[f. CHAP v.1 + -ING2.] That chaps or breaks in chinks or clefts.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. x. 24. Chapping grounds, chinking, or chauming with Cranies.
2. Breaking in short waves; = CHOPPING ppl. a.
1622. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea (1847), 32. The wind … blowing hard … caused a chapping sea.
