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leaper

The English word “leaper” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One who leaps.
  2. A kind of hooked instrument for untwisting old cordage.
  3. A piece, like the knight, which moves a fixed distance, and ignores pieces in the way.
  4. Synonym of jumper (“person who attempts suicide by jumping from a height”).
  5. A person whose birthday falls on 29 February, and thus only occurs in leap years.

Etymology

From Middle English lepere, lepare, from Old English hlēapere (“runner, leaper, dancer, courier, vagrant”), equivalent to leap + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Lööper (“runner”), West Frisian ljepper (“leaper”), West Frisian loper (“runner”), Dutch loper (“runner”), German Läufer (“runner”), Swedish löpare (“runner”), Icelandic hlaupari (“runner”).

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