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Webster 1913 Edition

Halma

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Hal′ma

(hăl′mȧ)

,

Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἄλμα

, fr.

ἄλλεσθαι

to leap.]

(Greek Antiq.)

The long jump, with weights in the hands, – the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.