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Definition of Masse shot
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
Literary usage of Masse shot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"... diagram 3 can be arrived at, a large run said to break, but there are sev- .
eral positions in which they may be recovered by a kiss or a masse shot. ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... the loyal burgesses rose en masse, shot the gates. and prevented them again
entering the place. It is twenty-two miles SSE of ..."
3. From Midshipman to Rear-Admiral by Bradley Allen Fiske (1919)
"Mr. Ashburton had got the balls together in a corner, and was about to make a
masse-shot, when he suddenly exploded. I saw him tilt forward to the table, ..."
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