Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which runs or leaps: as, a horse that is a good leaper.
- noun An anglers' name for the salmon, from its leaping over obstructions in streams.
- noun A tool used by junkmen for untwisting old rope; a loper.
- noun Nautical, a sea that breaks on board a vessel; a wave that leaps over the rail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, leaps.
- noun A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofleap ; one who leaps. - noun A kind of
hooked instrument foruntwisting oldcordage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition)
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Examples
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The leaper is the glory of the team, but the catchers are life to him; each of the team is life to all the rest.
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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Although he was known as a leaper who could dunk with prep's best, he was also a threat from downtown hitting 53 of 147 attempts from beyond the 19-foot-9-inch arc.
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F Jerome Hamilton is an excellent leaper who will wait behind an experienced group of big men.
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"I'm not the highest leaper, but I do have decent timing," he says.
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If you hook it to the bucket and have the driver drive in reverse you can simulate a leaper as the bucket goes up and down.
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It isn't long before he's spotted by the crowd on Madison Avenue, and not much longer before police detectives, including the acerbic Jack Dougherty Ed Burns, realize that there isn't a fingerprint in the room by which to identify their would-be leaper.
'Man on a Ledge' Does a Balancing Act John Anderson 2012
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F Jerome Hamilton is an excellent leaper who will wait behind an experienced group of big men.
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Chet might have flunked out of police school ( "I'd been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn't remember exactly, although blood was involved"), but he's a detective through and through.
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If you hook it to the bucket and have the driver drive in reverse you can simulate a leaper as the bucket goes up and down.
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Mr. Fields, a 6-foot-7 leaper, averaged 22 points and 8.8 rebounds at Stanford last season, but didn't even appear among the 108 prospects listed in the NBA's Draft Media Guide.
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