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Webster 1913 Edition

Billiards

Bil′liards

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Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Billiards

BILL'IARDS

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Noun.
plu.
bil'yards.
A game played on a rectangular table, covered with a green cloth, with small ivory balls, which the players aim to drive into hazardnets or pockets at the sides and corners of the tables, by impelling one ball against another, with maces, or cues, according to certain rules of the game.

Definition 2024

billiards

billiards

English

Noun

billiards ‎(uncountable)

  1. (games, Britain) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
  2. (games, US) The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
Synonyms
  • pool
  • See also Wikisaurus:cue sport
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Etymology 2

Noun

billiards

  1. plural of billiard

Etymology

From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille ‎(“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile ‎(“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos ‎(“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos ‎(“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- ‎(“blossom, flower”).

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