1789. Geo. Parker, Life's Painter, 160. They . . . pick him up and take him to the above alehouse to jump him, or do him upon the broads, which means cards.
1855. F. Marryat, Mountains and Molehills, 217. If a man jumped my claim. . . . I appealed to the crowd.
1857. Westgarth, Victoria and the Australian Goldmines. There was for that day at any rate to be no jumping of claims.
1870. Bret Harte, Luck of Roaring Camp, 134. The old proprietor . . . was green, and let the boys about here jump him.
1879. J. W. Horsley, in Macm. Mag., xl. 500. Who used to take me a parlour-jumping (robbing rooms), putting me in where the window was open.
1888. Chicago Herald. He arose at early dawn and jumped his bill.
1888. Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, xxxviii. We lying down and our horses hung up not far off for fear we might be jumped by the police at any time.
1890. Athenæum, 8 Feb. p. 176, col. 2. 'How a Claim was nearly jumped' is the most natural and the best of the five stories.
2. (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.
1638. Randolph, Muses' Looking-Glass, iv. 3. Then there is jumping Jude . . . with bouncing Nan.
3. (medical).—To try a medicine.
From the jump, adv. phr. (colloquial).—From the start.
1848. New York Tribune, 11 Nov. Here is a whole string of Democrats, all of whom had been going the whole hog for Cass from the jump.
b.1871. Wild Bill [quoted by De Vere]. I knew how it would come from the jump, for in the man's face was written rascal.
1888. Daily Inter-Ocean, 3 Feb. He can depend on a big crowd and fair play from the jump.
To jump at, verb. phr. (colloquial).—1. To accept eagerly.
1848. Longstreet, Georgia Scenes [quoted by De Vere]. When I offered him that, his whole face brightened wonderfully, and he jumped at the offer.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, iii. 1. Mary was getting on badly with her drawing, and jumped at the idea of a ramble in the woods.
1882. James Payn, Thicker than Water, vii. His circumstances were such that, to use a homely but very significant expression, he might well have jumped at such an offer.
2. (colloquial).—To guess.
1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger's Sweetheart, 250. I shall only give you a little of our conversation the Sunday night before we parted, and leave you to jump at what had been said before.
To jump (or be jump) with, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To agree; to coincide; to tally.
1567. Harman, Caveat [E. E. I. S.], 44. They mete iompe at night.
1584. Lyly, Alexander and Campaspe. And thou to be jump with Alexander.
1598. Shakspeare, I Henry IV, i. 2. In short, it jumps with my humour.
1606. Return from Parnassus [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), ix. 113]. As in the first, so in the last, my censure may jump with thine.
1633. Match at Midnight, iii. 1. How all things jump in a just equivalency.
1660. Andromana, iii. 6. This story jump'd Just with my dream to-night.
1838. Neal, Charcoal Sketches, [quoted by De Vere]. On the whole it jumped with his desires, and the matter was clinched.
1841. Peake, Court and City, iv. Hum. What a happiness it is, when people's inclinations jump!
To jump one's horse over a bar, verb. phr. (colonial). See quot.
1886. Daily Telegraph, 20 Mar. Then the unhappy man would, in bush parlance, jump his horse over the bar, that is to say, he would, for a paltry sum, sell his horse, saddle, bridle, and all, to the lambing-down landlord.
