Baby jumper

Baby jumper
jumper jump"er (j[u^]mp"[~e]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, jumps. [1913 Webster]

2. A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

4. (Zo["o]l.) The larva of the cheese fly. See {Cheese fly}, under {Cheese}. [1913 Webster]

5. (Eccl.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions. [1913 Webster]

6. (Horology) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. [1913 Webster]

{Baby jumper}. See in the Vocabulary.

{Bounty jumper}. See under {Bounty}. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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