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Definition of Masse
1. Noun. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball.
Group relationships: Billiards, Pocket Billiards, Pool
Generic synonyms: Shot, Stroke
Definition of Masse
1. Noun. (billiards) A stroke made with the cue held vertically that puts tremendous spin on the cue ball. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Masse
1. a type of shot in billiards [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Masse
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Literary usage of Masse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of International Law by Thomas Joseph Lawrence (1910)
"2 §197 We have next to consider the subject of Levies en masse. ... A good example
is to be found in the French levy en masse of 1793, which filled the ..."
2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"Synt Austine de civitate Dei sais )»at ]>e vertu of f>e masse is of more profet
to hym J>at heres it, J>an he went alle hys lyfe dayes vn ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The masse & Felton Lumber Company has been negotiating a sale of the timber to
the Kelly-Clark Lumber Company and Arthur Kelly, and that, if the sale has ..."
4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"E 4 in the second alphabet. The first alphabet begins with a |, and proceeds
regularly in half sheets. The Burying of the masse. Imp. at Wesell, 1546,12mo. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"Operations in Cases of Hernia when the Sac and its Contents had been reduced en
masse.—Mr. PAGET has recorded (Med. Times and Gaz. ..."
6. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"Provided they receive some organisation, and comply with the laws and usages of
war, the combatants who take part in such a levy en masse organised by the ..."
7. Continental Stagecraft by Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones (1922)
"masse-MENSCH—MOB-MAN PROPHECY is a risky business in the theater, especially when
prophecy concerns itself with personalities rather than tendencies. ..."
8. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"The levée-en-masse [1793 To the ... of the provincial Communes, who were il Paris
for the fête, demanded a levée- en-masse of the people of France. ..."
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