billiard cloth — noun : the smooth green woolen cloth thoroughly shrunk and felted that is used to cover billiard and pool tables * * * billiard cloth noun A green cloth for covering a billiard table • • • Main Entry: ↑billiards … Useful english dictionary
Billiard table — A billiard table or billiards table (or more specifically a pool table or snooker table) is a bounded table on which billiards type games are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables, regardless of whether for carom billiards, pocket… … Wikipedia
billiard table — an oblong table with a slate surface covered by a cloth and enclosed by a raised rim of vulcanized rubber, for use in playing billiards. [1635 45] * * * … Universalium
billiard table — noun a rectangular cloth covered table used for billiards, snooker, and some forms of pool, with six pockets at the corners and sides into which balls are struck with cues … English new terms dictionary
green cloth — noun 1. usually capitalized G&C [so called from the green covered table at which the board originally carried on its business] : a board or court of justice of the British sovereign s household that is composed of the lord steward and his… … Useful english dictionary
Cue sports — Billiards redirects here. For other uses, see Billiard (disambiguation). Cue sports Engraving from Charles Cotton s 1674 book, The Compleat Gamester Highest governing body World Confederation of Billiard Sports First played 15th … Wikipedia
Carom billiards — Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole and, in some cases, used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive, is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally… … Wikipedia
William A. Spinks — Infobox Person name = William A. Spinks image size = 257 caption = William A. Spinks in 1924 (passport photo from Dept. of State microfilm) birth date = July 11, 1865, birth place = San Jose, California death date = death date and… … Wikipedia
Three-ball — (or 3 ball , colloquially) is a pocket billiards folk game played with three standard pool Cuegloss|Object ball|object balls and a Cuegloss|Cue ball|cue ball. The goal is to Cuegloss|Pocket|pocket the three object balls in as few shots as… … Wikipedia
Glossary of cue sports terms — The following is a glossary of traditional English language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom (or carambole) billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool (pocket… … Wikipedia
Five-pin billiards — This article is about the originally Italian and now internationally standardized billiard game. For the Danish five pin game, see Danish pin billiards. Five pins redirects here. For other uses, see Five pins (disambiguation). Five pin billiards… … Wikipedia
