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Definition of Caroming
1. carom [v] - See also: carom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caroming
Literary usage of Caroming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Billiards Without a Master by Michael Phelan, D. D. Winant (1850)
"... but again partly developes itself when opposite ball 2, and describes the
course as delineated, completing the stroke by caroming on ball 3. ..."
2. The Game of Billiards by Michael Phelan (1859)
"For pocketing one of the red balls, and caroming on all the others, let him have
EIGHT ; also for caroming on the two reds, pocketing one of them, ..."
3. The Book of School and College Sports by Ralph Henry Barbour (1904)
"Using the boards, or caroming, is a highly useful accomplishment and should ...
caroming to elude an opponent is only possible when the puck is being taken ..."
4. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"There are seldom any sidewalks, and when there are, they are not often wide enough
to pass a man on without caroming on him. So even-body walks in the ..."
5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"There are seldom any sidewalks, and when there are, they are not often wide enough
to pass a man on without caroming on him. So everybody walks in the ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"The attempts to give a philosophical explanation of the trajectory of the boomerang
variously compare it with the caroming of a billiard-ball, ..."
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