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Game on board requiring woman to chase husband
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halma
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Wikipedia
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Halma (from the Greek word ἅλμα meaning "jump") is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks , a US thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School . His inspiration was the English game Hoppity which was devised in 1854. The gameboard ...
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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases
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Population (2000): 78 Housing Units (2000): 38 Land area (2000): 0.929404 sq. miles (2.407144 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.006477 sq. miles (0.016776 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.935881 sq. miles (2.423920 sq. km) FIPS code: 26612 Located within: Minnesota ...
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.