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Frog's jump

By Robert Guerrero
•A basket.•A weel or wicker trap for fish.•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.•To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.•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.•The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound.•Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.•A fault.•A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.