Crossword clues for billiards
billiards
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 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.
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").
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context games British English) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table. 2 (context games US English) The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue. 3 (plural of billiard English)Category:English plurals
WordNet
n. 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
Wikipedia
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.