verb
1 to leap; to jump
2 to spring to attention
3 to jump up with pain, surprise or shock
4 to dance; to hop about
5 to walk with a long springing step; to bound
6 to throb with pain
7 (heart) to throb; to race
8 to spring or fly apart or away
9 NORTHERN to thaw
noun
1 leap; jump
2 throb; start
3 place where a river is crossed
4 shelf in a river bed over which fish may leap upriver