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• billiards — billiardist, n. /bil yeuhrdz/, n. (used with a sing. v.) any of several games played with hard balls of ivory or of a similar material that are driven with a cue on a cloth covered table enclosed by a raised rim of rubber, esp. a game played with …   Universalium

• stroke — stroke1 /strohk/, n., v., stroked, stroking. n. 1. the act or an instance of striking, as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; a blow. 2. a hitting of or upon anything. 3. a striking of a clapper or hammer, as on a bell. 4. the sound produced by …   Universalium

• spot stroke — noun : the pocketing of the red ball in English billiards in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave the cue ball in position for another winning hazard see spot barred * * * spot stroke noun (billiards) A stroke by which the… …   Useful english dictionary

• Spot stroke — (Eng. Billiards) The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave the cue ball in position for an easy winning hazard in either top corner pocket. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• half-ball stroke — noun : a stroke in billiards in which the center of the striker s ball is made to hit the extreme edge of an object ball …   Useful english dictionary

• 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

• Baseball pocket billiards — or baseball pool (sometimes, in context, referred to simply as baseball) is a pocket billiards (pool) game suited for multiple players that borrows phraseology and even some aspects of form from the game of baseball. For instance, although… …   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

• William Cook (billiards player) — William Cook was a professional player of English billiards in the 19th century. He won the World Championship on several occasions.Cook s first title challenge came in 1870, which was the first actual match for a recognised Billiards… …   Wikipedia

• English billiards — English billiards, called simply billiards in many former British colonies and in Great Britain where it originated, also known variously as the English game, the all in game and as the common game,cite book | last = Shamos | first = Michael Ian… …   Wikipedia

• World Professional Billiards Championship — The World Professional Billiards Championship is an international cue sports tournament in the discipline of English billiards. It has been played annually since 1980, is one of the oldest sporting World Championships in the world, dating in… …   Wikipedia