Something that bounds or jumps.
1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A01093.0001.001/1:15.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext Atheomastix p.269]:
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(UK, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
: Let the mountaine Pyrenaeus diuide the French, and Spaniards: and the wildernesse of Sand the Aethiopians, from Aegyptians. And in like manner also be all other Kingdomes: they are bound within their bounders, as it were in bands; and …
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A social climber.
1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A01093.0001.001/1:15.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext Atheomastix p.269]:
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