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Weights, similar to dumb-bells, held in the hands to give an impetus in leaping.
An instrument of wood or iron, consisting of a short bar or slender connecting-piece weighted at each end with a roundish knob; used in pairs…
a steel bar weighted with a ball of iron at each end, used as a dumb-bell.