The powerful sucking of the calf; the sudden chilling of the teat in winter after the calf has just let it go or after the completion of milking with a wet hand; contact with cold water or stagnant, putrid water, or with filth or irritants when lying down; slight congestions of the skin in connection with overstocking; indeed, any source of local irritation may cause Chapping.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
At just before nine there was a wordless round of inspection from the white starched shirt waist surmounted with the spectacles and the black-ribbon guard, a final look-in from the nurse whose face was Swedishly blond and pink from Chapping, a bottle of milk placed in the small refrigerator, and the little bundle on the pillow covered with an extra thickness of murky blanket.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
I mean the red and painful Chapping of my face and hands, from working in the snow all day, and lying in the frost all night.
"Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor"
R. D. Blackmore