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Jumper
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) an instrument for boring holes in rocks by percussion without hammering, consisting of a bar of iron with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
(2):
(n.) A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion;
(3):
(n.) A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.
(4):
(n.) A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.
(5):
(n.) A loose upper garment
(6):
(n.) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
(7):
(n.) The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
(8):
(n.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
(9):
(n.) One who, or that which, jumps.
(10):
(n.) A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.
(11):
(n.) A rude kind of sleigh; - usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Jumper'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/j/jumper.html. 1828.
