Halteres

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Plural form of haltere.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Plural of halter.
  • Word Usage
    "Historians of the ancient Olympics have always questioned how hand-held weights called halteres depicted on many Greek vases and found at sporting sites all over Greece were used."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    balancers