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 jump·er 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.]
 4. Zool. The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
 5. Eccl. A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
 6. Horology 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.
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 Ba·by jump·er A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.
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