halma
IPA: hˈɑɫmʌ
noun
- (board games, uncountable) A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.
- (countable, historical) In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands.
- (games) A strategic board game played with counters on a board of 16×16 squares.
- A city in Minnesota.
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Examples of "halma" in Sentences
- Phil Halma for his collaboration in this research.
- The games are sometimes collectively referred to as Halma.
- And because they're ignorant novices, brought up on old maid and halma, they think it's foul play!
- "And because they're ignorant novices, brought up on old maid and halma, they think it's foul play!"
- Inside were the emerald and opal "halma" board and ruby and diamond pieces, and with them a slip of parchment with Daphne's handwriting.
- "None of my children have been brought up to play card games," said Mrs. Eggelby; "draughts and halma and those sorts of games I encourage."
- "I've come to be your legger, grandma," she announced, "and I'll read to you, or amuse you, or play dominos or halma with you, or anything you like."
- Then on another evening we might encourage the men to play progressive games like draughts, halma, picture lotto, spillikins, ping-pong, and beggar-my-neighbour.
- Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles -- when they play for keeps -- by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover.
- When you have gone, I will ask Mrs. Gordon to teach me the spirit of acquiescence, and one of those distracting games -- bésique or halma, or some of the other infernal pastimes that heaven decrees for recalcitrant spirits in need of crushing discipline.
- Lowrie distributed Christmas parcels in December 1919, including indoor games (dominoes, checkers, chess, and halma), mouth organs, and a small amount of money (one hundred to 250 Marks), so that welfare committees could purchase a Christmas tree, decorations, and small supplies.
- In the brilliant preface to "Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant," Bernard Shaw, referring to middle-class home life, speaks of "the normal English way being to sit in separate families in separate rooms in separate houses, each person silently occupied with a book, a paper, or a game of halma, cut off equally from the blessings of society and solitude."