'Baby jumper' definitions:
Definition of 'Baby jumper'
From: GCIDE
- jumper \jump"er\ (j[u^]mp"[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who, or that which, jumps. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Zool.) The larva of the cheese fly. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Eccl.) A name applied in the 18th century to certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Horology) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. [1913 Webster]
- Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary.
- Bounty jumper. See under Bounty. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Baby jumper'
From: GCIDE
- Baby jumper \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. [1913 Webster]