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English Dictionary: jumper' by the DICT Development Group
4 results for jumper'
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jumper \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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[94]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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Jumper \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.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   jumper
  
      A removable wire or small plug whose presence or
      absence is used to determine some aspect of hardware
      configuration.
  
      (1995-03-14)
  
  
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