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

Plural form of truck, The game of lawn billiards, The wheel-set of railroad rolling stock (see image), verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of truck

To rub or scrape (the skin) to relieve itching, To strike out or cancel (a word, for example) by or as if by drawing lines through, Games To make a shot in billiards that results in a penalty, as when the cue ball falls into a pocket or jumps the cushion, noun_ A mark resembling a line that is produced by scratching, A contestant who has been withdrawn from a competition, A fluke or chance shot in billiards, adjective_ Assembled hastily or at random, Done haphazardly or by chance, Sports Having no golf handicap

To go or move at a rack, transitive verb_ To torture by means of the rack, To place (billiard balls, for example) in a rack, noun_ A pair of antlers, An instrument of torture on which the victim's body was stretched, A wholesale rib cut of lamb or veal between the shoulder and the loin

A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf, A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc; a perforation; a rent; a fissure, transitive verb_ To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball, intransitive verb_ To put or propel into a hole, To make a hole in something

To come or go after; proceed behind, To be parallel to, To engage in (a trade or occupation); work at, noun_ In billiards, a stroke which causes the cue-ball to follow the object-ball after impact, The difference in the external diameter of a spring, especially of a coiled or helical spring, when unloaded and when compressed by its working load The torsion of the rod which forms the coil tends to increase the diameter as the spring closes

US Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling

of or relating to billiards

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