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jump verb To cause (a hunted animal) to flush from its cover; to startle, attack (game).
1878 Coale Wilburn Waters 84 [The dogs] "opened" in lively and eager chorus, soon jumped a large four-pronged buck, in full view from where I was standing, which, from the direction he took, I was satisfied would attempt to cross the river at the stand occupied. 1937 Hall Coll (Cades Cove TN) Them dogs was good ones to jump bear. 1984 Smith Enduring Memories 49 In the winter time the rabbits would sit in sage brush fields and briar thickets. We would line up in a field, about ten steps apart and walk slowly through the field trying to jump a rabbit.