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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



... the way of helping and saving men.—The world's way was to leap into the seat of power at any cost, and from the height of universal authority administer the affairs of the world. But Christ knew better. He saw that He must take the form of a servant, and humble Himself to the lowest. If He would save men, He cannot ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
... Killowen keep Running down the vaulted way, To the cellar dark by day, Took the ten steps at a leap. ...
— The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems • Dora Sigerson
... bench by the side of the table, besides paying double as much for the country wine he had drunk as if it had been fine Falernian and without asking for his reckoning. The host looked at him in astonishment when, finally, he sprang with a grand leap on to the back of the tall beast, without laying his hand on it; and it seemed even to Publius himself as though he had never since boyhood felt so fresh, so extravagantly happy as at ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... getting a bit degoutee of Jazz bands and steps. When ces autres get hold of anything it always begins to leave off being amusing. There's really a new step, however, the Peace Leap, that hasn't yet been quite use and spoilt by the outlying tribes. The origin of it was a little funny. Chippy Havilland was at one of Kickshaw's Jazz dinners one night, where people fly out of their seats to one-step and two-step between the courses and during the courses and all ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 28, 1919. • Various
... his members, that gentleman bounded forth into space, struck the earth, ricocheted, and brought up with his arms about a palm. His mind was quite a stranger to these events; the expression of anguish that deformed his countenance at the moment of the leap was probably mechanical; and he suffered these convulsions in silence; clung to the tree like an infant; and seemed, by his dips, to suppose himself engaged in the pastime of bobbing for apples. A more ...
— The Ebb-Tide - A Trio And Quartette • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne


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