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Marker :: Marker (n.) One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards..

Cue :: Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Billiards :: Billiards (n.) 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..

Pool :: Pool (n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes..

Pool :: Pool (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table..

Game :: Game (n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble..

Miscue :: Miscue (n.) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired..

Play :: Play (n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play..

Scratch :: Scratch (a.) Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards..

Mace :: Mace (n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand..

Hole :: Hole (n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball..

Boncilate :: Boncilate (n.) A substance composed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc..

Troco :: Troco (n.) An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.

Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke..

Mark :: Mark (v. t.) To keep account of; to enumerate and register; as, to mark the points in a game of billiards or cards..

Billiard :: Billiard (a.) Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.

Pocket :: Pocket (n.) One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven..

Cushion :: Cushion (n.) the elastic edge of a billiard table.

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