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(board games, uncountable) A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares. quotations examples
As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk chocolate for prizes.
1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Christmas Revel”, in Reginald
(countable, historical) In the Greek pentathlon, the long jump with weights in the hands.