A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Jump, n.1 [Cf. also later Sc. jimp (Jam.), in this sense.] ? One of the layers of leather or ‘lifts’ of which the heel of a shoe is built up. —1673 Leith Customs 5.
2 groce of jumps, 00, 12, 00 Ib. 14.
9 groce of jumps … , 400 pound faces & cutings 1691 Brechin Test. VIII. 28.
Fourtein dozen of jumps 1709 P. Blair in Phil. Trans. XXVII. 146.]
[After this I provided some jumps or leather such as shoe-makers use for the heels of shoes
