Definition of lawn billiards. Meaning of lawn billiards. Synonyms of lawn billiards

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Definition of lawn billiards

lawn billiards
Troco Tro"co, n. An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.

Meaning of lawn billiards from wikipedia

- Ground billiards is a modern term for a family of medieval European lawn games, the original names of which are mostly unknown, pla**** with a long-handled...
- (also called trucks, troco, or lawn billiards) is an Italian and later English lawn game, a form of ground billiards pla**** with heavy balls, large-headed...
- indoor games from outdoor stick-and-ball lawn games, specifically those retroactively termed ground billiards, and as such to be related to the historical...
- 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,...
- 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...
- lawn billiards or trucks in English) and similar games, pall-mall is an early modern development from jeu de mail, a French form of ground billiards....
- are the predecessors of modern sports and lawn games. Boules, lawn billiards (later brought indoors as billiards), skittles (an ancestor of modern ten pin...
- Roque Crossnet Cue sports (also knowns as billiards) Carom billiards English billiards Pool (or pocket billiards) Snooker Cycle ball Dodgeball Downball Fistball...
- stroke may be legally pla****, when points are scored, the layout of the lawn, and the target score. Commonly, social games adopt further non-standard...
- little friendly competition..." Billiards probably developed from one of the late-14th century or early-15th century lawn games in which players hit balls...