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Leap   /lip/   Listen
noun
Leap  n.  
1.
A basket. (Obs.)
2.
A weel or wicker trap for fish. (Prov. Eng.)


Leap  n.  
1.
The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound. "Wickedness comes on by degrees,... and sudden leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural." "Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides."
2.
Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
3.
(Mining) A fault.
4.
(Mus.) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.


verb
Leap  v. t.  (past & past part. leapt or leaped; pres. part. leaping)  
1.
To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
2.
To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
3.
To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.


Leap  v. i.  (past & past part. leapt or leaped; pres. part. leaping)  
1.
To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. " Leap in with me into this angry flood."
2.
To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig. "My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky."





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"Leap" Quotes from Famous Books



... cold. Marcos changed his hand from time to time and breathed on his fingers. He carried a cloak for Juanita. The striking of the quarter found him still waiting beneath the window. But, soon after, Marcos' heart gave a leap to his throat at the touch of cold fingers on his wrist. It was Juanita. He threw the cloak down and placing his heel on the sill of a lower window near the ground he raised himself to the ...
— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman
... son of them," "give them another taste of Waterloo." Just as he had uttered the last patriotic sentiment, he received a slight admonition from behind, by the point of a gen d'arme's sword, which made him leap from the table with the alacrity of a harlequin, and come plump down among the thickest of the fray. My attention was now directed elsewhere, for above all the din and "tapage" of the encounter I could plainly hear the row-dow-dow of the drums, and the measured tread ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
... wild waves, that rush and leap, Sing one song from the hoary deep: The south wind knows its own refrain, As it speeds the cloud o'er ...
— By Water to the Columbian Exposition • Johanna S. Wisthaler
... Princess, energetically, "I take you at your word, for with you, one must do so; and I hope that together we shall be strong enough for the purpose. Do only as Monsieur le Comte de Soissons did, but survive your victory. Side with me, as you did with Monsieur de Montmorency, but leap the ditch." ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... instrument. This idea is the key to Fiske's proof of the immortality of the soul. Finding himself face to face with an insoluble mystery, he cuts the knot, or rather, clears the chasm, by this extra-scientific leap. Since the soul, as we know it, is inseparably bound up with physical conditions, it seems to me that a more rational explanation of the phenomenon of mentality is the conception that the physical force and substance that ...
— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs


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