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Definition of Object ball
1. Noun. The billiard ball that is intended to be the first ball struck by the cue ball.
Definition of Object ball
1. Noun. (snooker billiards) The ball which the cue ball is intended to hit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Object Ball
Literary usage of Object ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"When the ball is forced tato a pocket the stroke is called a winning hazard ;
when the striker's ball falls tato a pocket after contact with the object ball ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"If the striker's ball is holed he plays from baulk; if an object-ball, it is
spotted as ... A cannon counts 2; missing the white object-ball scores i to the ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"A half- ball stroke is one in which half the striker's ball overlaps half the
object-ball. Place the red on the spot. Draw an imaginary line from the red to ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"U was usually employed when cue-ball and object-ball were very close together
and the third ball u-as in 3 line, or nearly in a line with them; ..."
5. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"cue-ball will part with all its motion to the object-ball and will stop still,
the object-ball going on in the same line. But if the cue-ball is struck ..."
6. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"... of object-balls with sufficient force to cause two or more object- balls to
strike a cushion, or cause at least one object-ball to go into a pocket. ..."
7. The Game of Billiards by Michael Phelan (1859)
"Although the object-ball may be struck in the same place, the cue-ball can be
made to take widely-different courses, as represented. The object in figure 1, ..."
8. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"One ball is forfeited if after the opening stroke the player fail to pocket a
ball, or fail to make at least one object ball, or the cue ball, after hitting ..."
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