halma

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hal=ma

CIDE DICTIONARY

halma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. "a`lma, fr. "a`llesqai to leap.].

 The long jump, with weights in the hands, -- the most important of the exercises of the Pentathlon.  [1913 Webster]

halma, 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.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

halma, n. a game played by two or four persons on a board of 256 squares, with men advancing from one corner to the opposite corner by being moved over other men into vacant squares.

Etymology

Gk, = leap