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Definition of Billiard
1. Adjective. Of or relating to billiards. "A billiard table"
Definition of Billiard
1. a. Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.
Definition of Billiard
1. Adjective. Pertaining to the game of billiards. ¹
2. Noun. a shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom. ¹
3. Numeral. (context: cardinal British rare) 1015, a million milliards. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Billiard
1. a carom shot in billiards (a table game) [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billiard
Literary usage of Billiard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"In almost every village of two thousand inhabitants, and, indeed, in many with
less population, a billiard table (with usually an accompanying one) is to be ..."
2. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"billiard tables and bowling alleys.—Since the keep- ig, for hire, ... Otherwise as
to "keeping billiard tables," which would include private ownership. ..."
3. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"billiard tables and bowling alleys.—Since the keeping, for hire, of gaming
apparatus, is only prohibited if the same is intended to be used for playing for ..."
4. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer: With the Practice of Country by John Frederick Archbold (1846)
"Form of the billiard Licence. At the general licensing annual meeting [or an
adjournment of the general annual licensing meeting, or at a special ..."
5. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1920)
"In this chapter we shall, therefore, use the term "billiard room" to ... In July
1919, there were 443 licensed pool and billiard rooms in Cleveland. ..."
6. The South-west by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1835)
"hall, in which stood several billiard tables, surrounded by their " mace and cue"
... Proceeding along the corridor, we left the billiard- room on our left, ..."
7. 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); ..."
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