(Southern US) A child.

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

(Scotland) A blow; a rap.

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

(Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).

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

(transitive) 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.