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(dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.

(UK, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.

(Southern US) A child.

Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

(Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.

A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.

(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.

(Scotland) A blow; a rap.

(archaic) The jaw.

One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.