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Definition of Carrom
1. n. See Carom.
Definition of Carrom
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of carom) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carrom
1. to carom [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: carom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carrom
Literary usage of Carrom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games, with by Edmond Hoyle (1887)
"Making a carrom, and holing the white hull 4 19. Making a carrom, and touching
... Playing on the white, making a carrom, and holing your own hall ' 4 24. ..."
2. Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games by Edmond Hoyle (1830)
"Making a carrom,and touching hoth halls with ^ your own . ... Making a carrom,
and holing the white hall 4 22. Making a carrom, and holing the white and 21. ..."
3. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"The Three-ball carrom game is (as the name indicates) played with three balls—two
white and one red. The billiard-table has three spots in a line, ..."
4. Hoyle's Improved Edition of the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games by Edmond Hoyle (1838)
"Making a carrom, and holing the white and 21. Making a carrom, and holing the red
... Playing on the white, making a carrom, and 24. Playing on the red, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1833)
"carrom knows that. carrom. Yes, I confess I do believe her capable of cutting
her half-sister if, in attempting a conquest, she prevented her from coming to ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1833)
"carrom, how comes it neither of you men are at ecart£ ? ... carrom, And I was
just trying to book a dozen of chateau with Fitz-Williams, that I would give ..."
7. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"The great art in baulk-line nursing is to get the object and carrom balls astride
the line, and then to follow the principle of the rail nurse. ..."
8. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"carrom. (Fr. carambole.) In the game of billiards, ... Dana knocked Greeley into
a cocked hat by a splendid chance carrom with one of A. Oakey Hall's ..."
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