jumper

jumper is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] One who, or that which, jumps.

[2] A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.

[3] A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills. [U.S.] J. F. Cooper.

[4] The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

[5] A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.

[6] spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bounty jumper. See under Bounty.

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