subs. (old).—1. See quot.
1821. D. HAGGART, Life, Glossary, p. 172. JUMPER, a tenpenny-piece. Ibid., p. 114. I got three JUMPERS and a kid’s-eye.
2. (thieves’).—A thief who enters houses by the windows: cf. JILTER.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1825. G. KENT, Modern Flash Dictionary, s.v.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
3. (colonial).—One who illegally appropriates a claim: but see JUMP, verb. sense 1. Cf. BOUNTY-JUMPER.
1890. A. C. GUNTER, Miss Nobody of Nowhere, p. 86. Bob, the hero who saved the Baby Mine from the JUMPERS for us.
4. (common).—A short slop of coarse woollen or canvas.
1877. W. H. THOMSON, Five Years’ Penal Servitude, iii. 222. We weren’t dressed in such togs as these ere, but had white canvas JUMPERS and trousers.
1883. W. C. RUSSELL, Sailors’ Language, s.v.
1884. A. FORBES, in The English Illustrated Magazine, i. 698, ‘Doughtown Scrip.’ He wore the long boots and the woollen JUMPER of a miner [in N.-Zealand].
1888. J. RUNCIMAN, The Chequers, p. 156. His huge chest is set off by a coarse white JUMPER.
