What does "leap" mean?

Leap: A weel or wicker trap for fish. [Prov. Eng.]

Additional senses

  1. 2.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. Bacon. Leap in with me into this angry flood. Shak.
  2. 3.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. Wordsworth.
  3. 4.To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a ditch.
  4. 5.To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
  5. 6.To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.
  6. 7.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. L'Estrange. Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides. H. Sweet.
  7. 8.Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
  8. 9.(Mining) A fault.
  9. 10.(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.

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