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leaper|ˈliːpə(r)|
Forms: 1 hléapere, 4 lepere, 5 lepare, 6– leaper.
[OE. hléapere: see leap v. and -er1.]
One who leaps.
†1. A runner; a dancer. Also with advs. Obs.
a1000O.E. Chron. an. 889 On þissum ᵹeare wæs nan færeld to Rome, buton tueᵹen hleaperas ælfred cyng sende mid ᵹewritum. c1000Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 311 Saltator, hleapere. 1382[implied in leaperess]. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 107 The whiche aren lunatik lollers and leperes a-boute. c1440Promp. Parv. 297/1 Lepare, or rennare, cursor. Lepare, or rennar a-wey, fugax. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Saulteur ou danseur, a leaper, or daunser.
†b. [After Du. looper.] An irregular soldier.
1604E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 116 Generall Vere sent forth some of his Leapers or aduenturers to take some prisoner of the enemies Campe.
2. A person or an animal that leaps or jumps.
c1325Names of Hare in Rel. Ant. I. 133 The wilde der, the lepere. 1573L. Lloyd Pilgr. Princes (1607) 100 Wrastlers, leapers, runners and such like games were appointed. 1700Wallis in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 318 Who did..out-leap..the next-best leaper..by seven inches. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 366 The Danish horses were good leapers. 1836C. Shaw Let. 9 May in Mem. (1837) 568 The most extraordinary leaper, and perhaps most active man in Europe. 1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Mkt. Harb. 275 The two horses..both capital leapers.
b. An animal which uses leaping as a mode of progression.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 254 They are also called springers, or leapers, from the agility with which they leap, rather than walk. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 332 Laurenti, in 1768, in his Synopsis of Reptiles, divides them into three orders, viz. Leapers, as the frogs; Walkers, as the lizards; and Serpents. 1881Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 121 These true Orthoptera may be readily divided into three tribes, namely, the Leapers, or Saltatoria, the Runners, or Cursoria; and the Earwigs, or Euplexoptera.
3. A hollow cylinder with a hook at one end, employed in untwisting old ropes. Cf. loper1. (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875.) |