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Definition of Pocket billiards
1. Noun. Any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets.
Generic synonyms: Table Game
Terms within: Break, Cannon, Carom, Masse, Masse Shot, Miscue
Specialized synonyms: Snooker
Definition of Pocket billiards
1. Noun. A family of billiards games played on a specific class of billiards table, having six receptacles called pockets along the rails, in which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocket Billiards
Literary usage of Pocket billiards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Library Annual: Including Index to Dates of Current Events (1914)
"Ja 6-8 ship match pocket billiards (pool), 600 to 561 Ora Morningstar defeats G:
Button in 18.1 ... T Howard Shoemaker wins nat. pocket billiards " title. ..."
2. Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac (1921)
"Amateur—Cl-'.эз A, Percy Collins, Chicago: Class B, Julian Rice, NY ; Closs C.
Sidney Brüssel, Bkln; pocket billiards, Howard Shoemaker, ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1915)
"Folks of all ages are enchanted with Carom and pocket billiards. Each evening
this royal sport exhilarates the grown-ups. It banishes brain-fag, ..."
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