jump

Related Words

• Jump

  ·adv Exactly; pat. II. Jump ·vt To bore with a jumper. III. Jump ·vt To join by a butt weld. IV. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• jump

  The jump, or dining-room jump; a species of robbery effected by ascending a ladder placed by a sham ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Jump spark

  ·add. ·- A spark produced by the jumping of electricity across a permanent gap. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• jump, to

  v. to take possession of a claim(mining) on land, on the ground that a former possessor hasabandone...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to jump at

  To embrace with eagerness; as, 'I made him an offer, and he jumped at it.' ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• jump-jointed

  When the plates of an iron vessel are flush, as in those that are carvel-built. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• stump-jump plough

  n. a farm implement,invented in Australia, for ploughing the wheat-lands, which areoften left with ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris