JUMP, JUMPING
ADJECTIVES
► BEVISING leaping, jumping → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SALIENT leaping, jumping → 1646
► SALTANT leaping, jumping, dancing → 1601 obs.
► SKIPJACK hopping, jumping, skipping → 1605
► SUPERSALIENT jumping or leaping upon something → 1803 obs. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► BACKIE-PLASH a jump backwards from a rock, etc., into a bathing-pool → 1923 Sc.
► CALEER a caper, a jump; frolic → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DIDDLE a quick jumping or bouncing movement → 1840 Amer. dial.
► HALF-HAMMER a hopping or jumping motion → 1967 Amer. dial.
► RAM-RACE a short run preparatory to a jump → 1695 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► SALIENCY leaping or jumping → 1664 obs.
► SALTATION leaping, bounding, jumping; a leap → 1646
► SALTATIVENESS the faculty of leaping or jumping → 1829
► SAULT a leap, a jump; esp. of horses → a1350 obs.
► SPRINT a quick or sudden movement; a jump, a spring; a start; also, a short burst of effort → a1800 Eng. dial. obs.
► SPRIT a sudden quick movement; a spring, a jump, a leap → 1880 Sc.
► SUBSULTATION a hopping or jumping up and down → 1650 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► VAULTER one who vaults, jumps, or leaps → 1565
VERBS
► BEVIS ► BEVISH to jump about; to stagger; to walk unsteadily → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BIRD-WORK to leap, to hop, to progress by a series of high jumps → 1923 Amer. dial.
► CALEER to caper, to jump → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CALEEVER to skip, to jump, to frolic about; to run about heedlessly or foolishly → 1875 Eng. dial.
► HALF-HAM to move with a hop, skip, and a jump → 1906 Amer. dial..
► HALF-HAMMON to move with a hop, skip, and a jump → 1906 Amer. dial..
► KANGAROO to make a great jump → 1889
► LAUNCH to leap, to jump, to vault → c1400 obs.
► LOPE to leap, to jump, to spring → 1483 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
► SALTATE to leap; to jump; to skip; to dance → 1623
► SUBSALT to jump up → 1623 obs.
► SUBSULT to leap, to hop, to jump about → 1656 obs.
► TAKE TIMBER to jump; to clear by jumping → 1899 Eng. dial.
► VAMP ABOUT. to jump about in a half playful, half menacing manner → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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