JUMPER. Tlie first \Ir. Jtimper would appear to have derived his name not from his saltatory skill, but from his having been a maker of jumjs, a kind of short leather coat or boddice, formerly worn by women. See Bailey aud llalliwell. Jumper is also a northern proviucialism for a miner's boriug tool, and may have been metaphorically applied to tlie miner himself.

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