Vocabulary : Jump spark to Juncate
Jump spark : A spark produced by the jumping of electricity across a permanent gap.Jumped : of Jump
Jumper : One who, or that which, jumps. ;; A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen. ;; A rude kind of sleigh; -- usually, a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills. ;; The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. ;; A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions. ;; spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. ;; A loose upper garment ;; A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it. ;; A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys. ;; A thing that jumps; esp., any of various tools or other contrivances operating with a jumping motion; ;; 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.
Jumping : of Jump ;; of Jump, to leap.
Jumping disease : A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.