Jumpers, a term given by opponents to the Shakers (q.v.), as also to some Welsh Methodists, assumed to 'jump' as part of divine worship.
Jumpers
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 368
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Jumpers, a term given by opponents to the Shakers (q.v.), as also to some Welsh Methodists, assumed to 'jump' as part of divine worship.