• 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.