lopern.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > one who or that which
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1483 Cath. Angl. 220/2 A Loper, saltator, saltatrix.
2. Rope-making. A swivel upon which yarns are hooked at one end while being twisted into cordage. [Perhaps another word, < Dutch looper runner.]
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 55 Loper, used to lay lines, has two iron swivel-hooks at each end, for the line to hang on.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 485/1 [Rope-making] This is put on one of the hooks of a swivel called the loper.
3. Cabinet-making. (See quots.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > desk > [noun] > parts of
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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. 302 In the second [bureau bookcase], the sloping flap falls down, and rests on two sliding pieces, technically called lopers.
1952 J. Gloag Short Dict. Furnit. 323 Sliding rails which pull out from the carcase of a bureau to support the fall are called lopers.
1963 Times 20 Apr. 11/7 The bureau bookcase has continuously changed its outline, wood and fashionable finish according to the dictates of fashion, but apart from the invention, in this century, of the automatic opening loper, no basic improvement in it has been found possible between the reigns of Queen Anne and Queen Elizabeth II.
1971 Canad. Antiques Collector Mar. 10/1 The name ‘pembroke’ should be saved for a particular sort of small 4-legged dropleaf tables, usually with a drawer, the leaves supported on lopers (pull-out bars).
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