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Definition of Jumping-off place
1. Noun. A place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched. "My point of departure was San Francisco"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumping-off Place
Literary usage of Jumping-off place
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1857 Away down upon the Atlantic coast, nearly at the jumping- off-place of this
... 1861 Brunswick, Maine, almost the jumping-off place of Down- East. ..."
2. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"... jumping-off place"—Unprecedented Descent—Comparison of the Dangers ot a Fox
Chase with such driving—Description of the Mormon Canon—Mormon Lime-burners. ..."
3. Across the Rocky Mountains, from New York to California: With a Visit to the by William Kelly (1852)
"... Animals—Distant View of the Mountains of the Salt Lake Valley—Romantic
Scenery—Reflections—" The jumping-off place "—Unprecedented Descent— Comparison ..."
4. The United States Navy in the World War: Official Pictures Selected from the by James Clayton Russell, William Emmet Moore (1921)
"The bottom of the 'anchor' has four wheels, on which it run« along the little
railroad track on the launching deck to the jumping off place at the stern. ..."
5. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1902)
"In the Chatham Islands the ‘jumping-off place ‘ is on time ... It is probable
that in each group the “jumping-off place” is approximately on that side from ..."
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