1) Banking game 2) French word used in English 3) It starts with a break 4) Table game
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1) Pool
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• (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.
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any of various games played on a rectangular table with a designated number of small balls and a long stick called a cue. The table and the ... [14 related articles]
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Bil'liards noun [ French
billiard billiards, Old French
billart staff, cue form playing, from
bille log. See
Billet a stick.] 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 t...
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Billiards is a formerly well-known game, the origin of billiards is not clearly established, nor is it known in what country it was first played. England, France, and Italy seem to have about equal claims, though Bouillet, a French writer in the Academie des Jeux, ascribes the invention to England. According to Reilly's English translation of the A...
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n] - 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
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noun 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
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Indoor game played, normally by two players, with tapered poles (cues) and composition balls (one red, two white) on a rectangular table covered with a green, felt-like cloth (baize). The table has six pockets, one at each corner and in each of the long sides at the middle. Scoring strokes are made by potting the red ball, potting the opponent&...
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any of several games played with hard balls of ivory or of a similar material that are driven with a cue on a cloth-covered table enclosed by a raised rim of rubber, esp. a game played with a cue ball and two object balls on a table without pockets. Cf. pool (def. 8).
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