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Definition of Billiards

1. 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.

Definition of Billiards

1. 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.

Definition of Billiards

1. Noun. (games) (British) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table. ¹

2. Noun. (games) (American English) The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue. ¹

3. Noun. (plural of billiard) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Billiards

1. billiard [n] - See also: billiard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Billiards

Literary usage of Billiards

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sport: Attempt at a Bibliography of Books and Periodicals Published During ...by C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1911)
"Practical billiards. Biographies and performances of noted players, past and present, ... Practise strokes at billiards for tables of all sizes, new ed. cr. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"5. степ now adopted in the rustic game of Bural billiards, by billiards was ... At that date billiards must have been well Italy, though in another page he ..."

3. The Great industries of the United States: being an historical summary of by Horace Greeley (1873)
"THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS IN THEIR CONNECTION WITH billiards. ... THE game of billiards may properly be said to have become a national one in the United States, ..."

4. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"New games of billiards, pp. 32. Manch. 1886. 16°. 7913. a. 55. ... The New Game of billiards; or, Indian billiards. Lahore, 1898. fol. 1865. с. 2. (48. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The scientific features of billiards have been discussed at more or less length in several of the following older works:—E. White, Practical Treatise on the ..."

6. Pool, Billards and Bowling Alleys as a Phase of Commercialized Amusements in by John Joseph Phelan (1919)
"THE HISTORY OF billiards Of the origin of the game, comparatively little is known—Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and even ancient Egypt have been regarded ..."

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