billiards
n.
any of a number of games played on a cloth covered table with cues and balls, pool, snooker
billiard
n.
type of shot in the game of billiards
Cue sports
Cue sports (sometimes spelled cuesports) are a wide variety of
games of skill generally played with a
cue stick which is used to strike
billiard balls, moving them around a
cloth-covered
billiards table bounded by rubber . Historically, the umbrella term was billiards. While that familiar name is still employed by some as a generic label for all such games, the word's usage has splintered into more exclusive competing meanings among certain groups and geographic regions. For example, in the
United Kingdom, "billiards" refers exclusively to a specific game, while in the
United States it is sometimes used to refer to a particular game or class of games, or to all cue games in general, depending upon dialect and context.
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billiards
Noun
1. any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls
(hypernym) table game
(part-meronym) break
(class) cannon
Billiards
(n.)
A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Billiards
Billiards, foretell coming troubles to the dreamer. Law suits and contentions over property. Slander will get in her work to your detriment. If you see table and balls idle, deceitful comrades are undermining you[.]
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see:
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