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English Dictionary: billiards by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
billiards
n
  1. any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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