Definition of Billiards. Meaning of Billiards. Synonyms of Billiards

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Definition of Billiards

Billiards
Billiards Bil"liards, n. [F. billiard billiards, OF. billart staff, cue form playing, fr. bille log. See Billet a stick.] A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
Billiard
Billiard Bil"liard, a. Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. ``Smooth as is a billiard ball.' --B. Jonson.

Meaning of Billiards from wikipedia

- balkline, one-cushion carom, three-cushion billiards, artistic billiards, and four-ball Pocket billiards (or pool), pla**** on six-pocket tables of seven...
- aspects of both pool and carom billiards, such as American four-ball billiards, bottle pool, cowboy pool, and English billiards. The etymology of "pool" is...
- Carom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally pla**** on...
- English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom...
- table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are pla****. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool,...
- Bar billiards is a form of billiards which involves scoring points by potting balls in holes on the playing surface of the table rather than in pockets...
- English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games pla**** on a billiard table without...
- billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of...
- without loss of speed (i.e. elastic collisions). Billiards are Hamiltonian idealizations of the game of billiards, but where the region contained by the boundary...
- three-cushion billiards and balkline in order to find people who would play him for money. In 1979, the writer John Grissim published the book Billiards, where...