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(noun) - The cowman's reference to death. When one died, he was said to have taken the big jump. A good many cowmen were "weighted down with their boots."
--Ramon Adams's Western Words: A Dictionary of the Range, Cow Camp, and Trail, 1944
January 14, 2018