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dumbbell

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dumbbell
Gymnastics Weightlifting an exercising weight consisting of a single bar with a heavy ball or disc at either end


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George himself, striding towards them in his mornmg exercise with his pipe in his mouth, no stock on, and his muscular arms, developed by broadsword and dumbbell, weightily asserting themselves through his light shirt-sleeves.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
But there would be sundry gentlemen there with large gold fob chains and black cigars; and somebody would tell a funny story, and then Dempsey would go back and work half an hour with the sixpound dumbbells.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
Think of a man's swinging dumbbells for his health, when those springs are bubbling up in far-off pastures unsought by him!
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