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verb

Leap v. t. (past & past part. leapt or leaped; pres. part. leaping)

To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.

To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.

To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.

Leap v. i. (past & past part. leapt or leaped; pres. part. leaping)

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."

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."

adjective

Leaping adj., n. From Leap, to jump.

Leaping house, a brothel. (Obs.)

Leaping pole, a pole used in some games of leaping.

Leaping spider (Zool.), a jumping spider; one of the Saltigradae.

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Etymology of 'Leaping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Leaping" Quotes from Famous Books

... the fence in the course of half an hour, but still he kept on. He began to feel that as long as he galloped on land which was pleasant to him it would be pleasant to man also. So he kept steadily on his way, leaping the brooks. Into the river he cast himself and swam to the farther shore. There was an instant change beyond that bank. The valley opened like a fan. The handle of it was the green, well-watered plateau into which he had first descended, but now it spread in raw colored ...

— Alcatraz • Max Brand

... be a school of large fish," Dave mused aloud, in Runkle's hearing, "though at night they are likely to rest. Runkle, and you, men, keep your eyes peeled to see if you can make out fish leaping out ...

— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock

... a riotous multitude, consisting of the inhabitants of Mousehole and Marka-jew, who maintained their unlawful proceedings with the cry of 'One and All!' threatening with death the servants of the Crown, and compelling them to avoid their fury by leaping down a high cliff. ...

— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller

... spoken again, the forms of the galloping riders darkened the doorway; the foremost of them, leaping off his horse, exclaimed: "By God! here's the rest of it. If they ain't the damnedest impudent thieves! Look at this woman, cutting it up! Put that down, will you? We'll save you the trouble of dryin' our meat for us, besides ...

— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson

... nocked and loosed another arrow, which would have smitten Walter in the face, but that he lowered his head in the very nick of time; then with a great shout he rushed up the bent, and was on the Dwarf before he could get his sword out, and leaping aloft dealt the creature a stroke amidmost of the crown; and so mightily be smote, that he drave the heavy sword right through to the teeth, so ...

— The Wood Beyond the World • William Morris

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