lover's leap

American  

noun

1. a high area, as on a cliff, from which frustrated or grieving lovers jump or are reputed to have jumped to their death.

2. Backgammon. a player's move from ace point to twelve point in one roll of the dice.

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Etymology

Origin of lover's leap

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

Recently, I led a multipitch free climb for the first time when I climbed Corrugation Corner, a legendary 500-feet ascent up a sheer rock face at Lover’s Leap in South Lake Tahoe, California.

From Slate

His northern California test sites have included the granite of Tahoe’s Lover’s Leap, the single-pitch trad routes of Phantom Spires, sport climbing at Luther Spires, and the crevice and chimney systems of nearby Sugarloaf.

From Forbes

Here commencing p. 257a walk of three miles in length, we passed through agreeable plantations of oak, ash, and elm, to the edge of a perpendicular cliff, called the Lover’s Leap, overlooking an abyss-like hollow, whose fearful depth is softened by a tract of forest extending over the surrounding rocks. 

From Project Gutenberg

A princess of the Lenape caused a cliff on Mount Tammany to be called Lover's Leap.

From Project Gutenberg

We pass into lovely Lake Pepin, Maiden's Rock or Lover's Leap rising into a battlement on the right, and the famous Point-no-Point on the left.

From Project Gutenberg