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billiards
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from French billiard , originally the word for the wooden cue stick, a diminutive from Old French bille "stick of wood," from Medieval Latin billia "tree, trunk," possibly from Gaulish (compare Irish bile "tree trunk").
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bar billiards COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB play ▪ Me and Frank had been playing billiards at the Liberal club, a big chapel-like building on Kenworthy Road. ▪ He died at the age of eighty-one while playing billiards ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of billiards.
KELFORD was back at billiards when Cardona left, but a note delivered by a club attendant gave Weston an excuse to call for him.
To satisfy your doubts, if you have any, Wellwood, I might add that Cranston was playing billiards this evening, here at the club with Kelford.
On occasion he played billiards with fellow captain Myles Keogh or Major Reno.
Taps to drink or play billiards, the talk always turned to the Indian threat.
Yet he continued his occasional game of billiards with Priss and when the two met they behaved with complete propriety.
This was to be another version of their everlasting billiards competition and Bloom was going to win.
The world knows your phenomenal skill in billiards, Professor, a talent second only to your amazing aptitude in theoretical physics.
Keeping her own two girls dressed and fed and in the home Trina had purchased by working several jobs and playing billiards took every bit of her paychecks.
March the first floor of Nine Balls Billiards Parlor was dark and silent in the night.
Empty now, the parking lot was once filled with very expensive luxury cars and SUVs, owned by the patrons of the upscale billiards parlor, Nine Balls.
A quick glance at the DVDs said that Mallory had stocked up on billiards and pool tutorial programs.
Nine Balls for the test day of free billiards, to deal with Kyle and retrieve her tomcat.
She moved unsteadily away, putting the distance of another billiards table between them.
Judith discreetly made her way to the door and from there to the billiards room.
She said a brief prayer of gratitude that the large room was empty save for a number of masculine-looking chairs, an intricately carved billiards table, and the faintest hint of long ago cigar smoke.