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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Halma \Hal"ma\ (h[a^]l"m[.a]), n. A game played on a board having 256 squares, by two persons with 19 men each, or by four with 13 men each, starting from different corners and striving to place each his own set of men in a corresponding position in the opposite corner by moving them or by jumping them over those met in progress. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

halma n 1: a board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Halma, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota 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 (MN), FIPS 27 Location: 48.659758 N, 96.598504 W ZIP Codes (1990): 56729 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Halma, MN Halma