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Definition of Billiard table
1. Noun. Game equipment consisting of a heavy table on which pool is played.
Generic synonyms: Game Equipment, Table
Terms within: Pocket, Balk, Baulk
Definition of Billiard table
1. Noun. (context: sports billiards snooker) A heavy felt-covered table fitted with six pockets along the perimeter used in the games of pool, billiards or snooker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billiard Table
Literary usage of Billiard table
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer: With the Practice of Country by John Frederick Archbold (1846)
"Keeping billiard table, $c. without licence.] And after the fifth day of April
in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in the counties of ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"Did you see a billiard table in there ? I do not recollect seeing one. Did you
see a telegraphic machine there? I have no recollection. ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"AI a game played on a billiard table. As billiards, see "Billiards. ... It is
one of the various games played on a six-pocket billiard table (Stand, Diet); ..."
4. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts by James Barr Ames, Jeremiah Smith (1893)
"The billiard table was included in the bill of sale. ... The plaintiff never got
the billiard table, which was ultimately seized and sold by the landlord ..."
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