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What's The Definition Of Jumper?

\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.] --J. F. Cooper. 4. (Zo["o]l.) 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}.
\Jump"er\, n. [See 1st {Jump}.] A loose upper garment; as: (a) A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it. (b) A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.
\Jump"er\, n. A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion; as, (Mining, Quarrying, etc.), 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.