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Definition of To pocket a ball

To pocket a ball
Pocket Pock"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pocketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pocketing.] 1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. He would pocket the expense of the license. --Sterne. 2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently. He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. --Macaulay. To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. ``I must pocket up these wrongs.' --Shak.

Meaning of To pocket a ball from wikipedia

- once they have legally pocketed a ball from that group. The object of the game is to legally pocket the 8-ball in a "called" pocket, which can only be done...
- better-known include eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. Eight-ball is the most frequently pla****...
- to score object balls. The object of the game is to score points. A point is made when a player pockets any object ball into their designated pocket....
- of six-ball. It is the last ball that must be pocketed, after the remaining five object balls have been pocketed, or may be pocketed early to win the...
- cue ball to pocket nine colored billiard balls, hitting them in ascending numerical order. An individual game (or rack) is won by the player pocketing the...
- Only one ball is the cue ball. Players can pocket the cue ball with a carom shot off another ball and then the scorer must choose an object ball to be taken...
- 1 ball may refer to: 1 ball, the pool (pocket billiards) ball numbered "1" and colored yellow 1 ball, a red snooker ball, worth 1 point, normally referred...
- inning to attempt to pocket (pot) a ball, or else lose a life. Usually if the player scratches then an additional life is lost. It is a po****r pub game because...
- four-ball Pocket billiards (or pool), pla**** on six-pocket tables of seven, eight, nine, or ten-foot length, including among others eight-ball (the world's...
- sometimes called rotation pool, 15-ball rotation, or 61, is a pool game, pla**** with a pocketed billiards table, cue ball, and triangular rack of fifteen...