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单词 leaping
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leapingn.

/ˈliːpɪŋ/
Etymology: < leap v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of leap v., in various senses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun]
leapingc1000
loupingc1440
loping1483
springing?1530
vaulting1531
saltion1541
jumping1565
exultation1599
bounding1607
exilition1646
saltation1646
salture1656
saliency1664
salitiona1682
upleaping1867
jumpery1882
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > running
runningOE
runec1330
leapingc1440
pelt1879
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 480 Ða unstæððigan hleapunge þæs mædenes.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxii. 1161 Þis beste caprea ‘þe wilde goote’ is..most light in lepynge, most scharp in sighte.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 297/1 Lepynge a-wey, fuga.
1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. C Church ales in the whiche with leappynge, daunsynge and kyssyng they maynteyne the profett of their churche.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Chiarantana, a kind of Caroll or song full of leapings like a Scotish gigge.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 49 Which way so euer I sought to winde me, was but a leaping out of the Frying Pan into the fire.
1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 30 Our Æneas, at two leapings, Set the first foot upon the steppings.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad liv. 83 By brooks too broad for leaping The lightfoot boys are laid.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
leaping-bar n.
ΚΠ
1852 R. Whately in E. J. Whately Life & Corr. R. Whately (1866) II. 260 The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill (commonly called ‘Lord John's leaping-bar’ to afford exercise in jumping over it).
leaping-pole n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > pole used for leaping dykes
lope-staff1603
kent1606
fen-pole1844
leaping-pole1859
1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home xvi. 205 Trying the merits of his alpenstock as a leaping-pole.
1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita III. xl. 192 In the Fens, when a man requires to traverse a considerable distance, he provides himself with a leaping-pole.
C2.
leaping-head n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle
saddle-boweOE
arsonc1300
saddle skirt1361
saddle-tree1364
skirtc1400
saddle panel1465
stock-tree1470
stock1497
pommela1500
tree1535
pillion cloth1540
port1548
saddle stock1548
pilch1552
bolster1591
cantle1591
shank-pilliona1599
pillowc1600
pad1604
crutch1607
sivet1607
saddle crutcha1614
saddle eaves1663
saddle tore1681
burr1688
head1688
narve1688
saddle seat1688
sidebar1688
torea1694
quarter1735
bands of a saddle1753
witherband1764
withers1764
peak1775
pillion-stick1784
boot-housing1792
saddle flap1798
saddle lap1803
fork1833
flap1849
horn1849
skirting1852
hunting-horn1854
head-plate1855
saddle horn1856
cantle bar1859
leaping-horn1859
straining1871
stirrup-bar1875
straining-leather1875
spring tree1877
leaping-head1881
officer-tree1894
monkey1911
monkey-strap1915
thigh roll1963
straining-web-
1881 Mrs. P. O. Donoghue Ladies on Horseb. i. iii. 35 By..pressing the left knee against the leaping-head, you can accomplish the rise in your saddle.
leaping-horn n. the lower pommel on a side-saddle, against which the left knee presses in leaping; a hunting-horn, ‘third crutch’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle
saddle-boweOE
arsonc1300
saddle skirt1361
saddle-tree1364
skirtc1400
saddle panel1465
stock-tree1470
stock1497
pommela1500
tree1535
pillion cloth1540
port1548
saddle stock1548
pilch1552
bolster1591
cantle1591
shank-pilliona1599
pillowc1600
pad1604
crutch1607
sivet1607
saddle crutcha1614
saddle eaves1663
saddle tore1681
burr1688
head1688
narve1688
saddle seat1688
sidebar1688
torea1694
quarter1735
bands of a saddle1753
witherband1764
withers1764
peak1775
pillion-stick1784
boot-housing1792
saddle flap1798
saddle lap1803
fork1833
flap1849
horn1849
skirting1852
hunting-horn1854
head-plate1855
saddle horn1856
cantle bar1859
leaping-horn1859
straining1871
stirrup-bar1875
straining-leather1875
spring tree1877
leaping-head1881
officer-tree1894
monkey1911
monkey-strap1915
thigh roll1963
straining-web-
1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) ix. 144 In case of a horse ‘bucking’, without the leaping-horn there is nothing to prevent a lady from being thrown up. But the leaping~horn holds down the left knee.
leaping house n. Obsolete a brothel.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel
houseOE
bordelc1300
whorehousec1330
stew1362
bordel housec1384
stewc1384
stivec1386
stew-house1436
bordelryc1450
brothel house1486
shop?1515
bains1541
common house1545
bawdy-house1552
hothouse1556
bordello1581
brothela1591
trugging house1591
trugging place1591
nunnery1593
vaulting-house1596
leaping house1598
Pickt-hatch1598
garden house1606
vaulting-school1606
flesh-shambles1608
whore-sty1621
bagnioa1640
public house1640
harlot-house1641
warrena1649
academy1650
call house1680
coney burrow1691
case1699
nanny-house1699
house of ill reputea1726
smuggling-ken1725
kip1766
Corinth1785
disorderly house1809
flash-house1816
dress house1823
nanny-shop1825
house of tolerance1842
whore shop1843
drum1846
introducing house1846
khazi1846
fast house1848
harlotry1849
maison de tolérance1852
knocking-shop1860
lupanar1864
assignation house1870
parlour house1871
hook shop1889
sporting house1894
meat house1896
massage parlour1906
case house1912
massage establishment1921
moll-shop1923
camp1925
notch house1926
creep joint1928
slaughterhouse1928
maison de convenance1930
cat-house1931
Bovril1936
maison close1939
joy-house1940
rib joint1940
gaff1947
maison de passe1960
rap parlour1973
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 9 What a diuell hast thou to do with the time of the daie? vnles houres were cups of sacke..and Dialles the signes of leaping houses . View more context for this quotation
leaping-on-stone n. a stone for convenience in mounting a horse; a horse-block.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > mounting-block
mounting place1490
riding block1570
block1614
mounting block1659
horsing stone1661
horsing-block1662
upping-stocka1697
joss-block1706
horse-block1713
mounting stone1794
upping-block1796
upping-stone1809
horse-steps1828
leaping-on-stone1837
stepping-stone1837
stirrup-stone1838
pillion stone1907
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott II. ii. 63 He immediately trotted to the side of the leaping-on-stone of which Scott from his lameness found it convenient to make use.
leaping time n. the time of activity, youth.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun]
youthc897
youngheada1300
youngthc1330
juvent1377
juventy1377
first youtha1387
youthheada1400
joyfnesc1400
junessec1430
young daysa1464
juventudec1470
younga1475
youngness?1505
flower?1507
juventute1541
prime tide1549
spring1553
April1583
springtime1583
nonage1584
prime1584
flowering youth1586
primrose1590
greenc1595
dancing-days1599
primrose-time1606
leaping timea1616
salad daysa1616
minority1632
juvenency1656
coltagec1720
youdith1723
veal-bones1785
whelphood1847
colthood1865
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 201 To haue turn'd my leaping time into a Crutch. View more context for this quotation
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

leapingadj.

/ˈliːpɪŋ/
Etymology: < leap v. + -ing suffix2.
That leaps (†runs, †dances, etc.: see the verb).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective]
leaping?a1400
jumping1567
saltant1601
vaultinga1616
salient1646
saltitant1654
springing1658
boundinga1667
saltating1852
upleaping1867
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [adjective] > leaping or prancing
gambolling1538
curvetting1598
caprioling1628
leaping1667
jauncing1792
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 482 Herodes swor..ðæt he wolde ðære hleapendan dehter forgyfan swa hwæt swa heo bæde.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 389 More sutil and sinful þan þis lepynge strumpet [sc. the daughter of Herodias].
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1460 They luyschene to-gedyres..on leppande stedes.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 14 There is a remedy to quaile these wanton-leaping beasts [sc. satyrs].
1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle ii. 66 A gray leaping Horse.
1716 Loyal Mourner for Best of Princes 9 And leaping Dolphins catch a distant View.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 219 A joy as of the leaping fire Over the house-roof rising higher.

Compounds

C1. In the names of various animals, plants, etc.
leaping cucumber n. = spirting cucumber n. at cucumber n. 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > spirting cucumber
leaping cucumber1548
touch-me-not1597
squirt1753
spurting cucumber1786
squirting cucumber1802
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.v v Cucumis sylvestris..maye be called in englyshe wylde cucummer or leapyng cucumer.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xl. 372 Of the wilde spirting Cucumbre..This Cucumber is called..in Englishe Wilde Cucumber, or leaping Cucumber.
leaping-fish n. the fish Salarias tridactylus, of Ceylon; so called because it comes on shore and leaps over the wet stones, etc.
ΚΠ
1861 J. E. Tennent Sketches Nat. Hist. Ceylon Index 495/2 Leaping fish.
leaping hare n. (also Cape leaping hare) = jumping-hare n. at jumping adj. Compounds 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Pedetidae (jumping-hare)
mountain hare1785
springhare1822
springhaas1831
jumping-hare1839
leaping hare1849
1849 Mammalia 4 44 The leaping hare equals our common hare in size.
1859 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) I. 588 The Spring Haas, or Cape Gerboa, sometimes called, from its hare-like aspect, the Cape Leaping Hare.
leaping spider n. ‘a jumping spider, one of the Saltigradæ’ (W.).
C2.
leaping ague n. (see quots.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > chorea
tirla1585
St. Vitus's dance1621
chorea1686
St. Vitus's jig1702
leaping ague1792
St. Vitus's fit1836
dancing-mania1877
Huntington's disease1889
Sydenham's chorea1892
dancing-plague-
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. 5 A distemper called by the country-people the leaping-ague, and by physicians, St. Vitus's dance.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 375 In the mountainous part of Angus a singular disease, called there the leaping ague, is said to exist, bearing a resemblance to St. Vitus's dance.
leaping gout n. Obsolete (see quot.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > gout
dropc1000
podagraOE
goutc1290
podagrec1300
arthritic?a1450
podagrya1538
arthritis1543
joint-sickness1545
leaping gout1562
goutiness1632
wind-gout1662
podarthritis1846
1562 W. Turner Bk. Natures Bathes Eng. f. 6, in 2nd Pt. Herball This bathe..is good for the leping goute, that runneth from one ioynte to another.

Derivatives

ˈleapingly adv. by leaps.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adverb]
leapingly1548
springingly1668
boundingly1838
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Assultim, leapyngly, iumpyngly.
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