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Game on board requiring woman to chase husband
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halma
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases
Wiktionary
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n. (context board game English) A board game invented by (w: George Howard Monks) in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.
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Halma may refer to: Halma , a board game invented by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School Nicholas Halma (1755-1828), mathematician and translator Halma (actor) , film actor of the 1910s and '20s, e.g. Le Miracle des ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halma \Hal"ma\ (h[a^]l"m[.a]), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "a`lma, fr. "a`llesqai to leap.] (Greek Antiq.) The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.
Usage examples of halma.
There were chitterlings tender and halma crisp, redspear and hot mush.
The mechanic took out a sheet of paper, accidentally on purpose smudging his greasy fingers across the sundries column, which contained the tip for the waiter at an incredibly expensive restaurant he had taken his girlfriend and the Heart of Gold to on a test drive, the replacement solar tiling (the original tiling didn't need replacing but the tiling on his star buggy did) and the money he lost playing Eddie the shipboard computer at electronic halma.