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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A loose upper garment; as:

2. A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.

3. A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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