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Definition of Pool table

1. Noun. Game equipment consisting of a heavy table on which pool is played.

Definition of Pool table

1. Noun. A table used for playing pool. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pool Table

Literary usage of Pool table

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"When Alexander began shooting he walked up to the pool table where Rayle was playing with his hand in his pocket, and when he got up to the table he jerked ..."

2. Snake Walkers by J. Everett Prewitt (2005)
"Raymond Williams scanned the pool table, focusing on the task at hand. There were only six balls left. Running all the balls off the table would be easy ..."

3. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1916)
"Thus, the imposition by the state of a tax on every keeper of a pool table does not authorize betting at such tables.1 And a license for the keeping of ..."

4. Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia by Georgia (1898)
"... or persons controlling any pool table in this State, by adding after the words " billiard table " and before the words "or ten-pin alley," in the second ..."

5. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"This game is played on a pool table with three balls and a pool bottle. ... being marked by the diamond nearest each pocket on the rail of the pool table. ..."

6. Pool, Billards and Bowling Alleys as a Phase of Commercialized Amusements in by John Joseph Phelan (1919)
"have, keep or conduct any billiard or pool table or any bowling or pin and ball alley for profit in the City of Toledo, and desiring to be licensed under ..."

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