Results for billiards

Definitions of billiards:

part of speech: noun plural

A game played on a long table covered with cloth, with ivory balls and a cue or mace.

part of speech: noun

A game played on a rectangular table, with ivory balls, which the players, by means of cues or maces, cause to strike against each other.

Usage examples for billiards:

• Think of it, playing billiards on his wedding day! "Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis", Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma

• The Captain only frequented the club, and could best chronicle the names that were great at whist or illustrious at billiards "The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)", Charles James Lever

• Let anyone watch an exciting game of tennis, or better still perhaps a game of billiards he will find himself doing in sheer sympathy the thing he wants done, reaching out a tense arm where the billiard cue should go, raising an unoccupied leg to help the suspended ball over the net. "",

• It makes me as sad as when I saw a wedding party at Paris once in a restaurant- the bride was reading a comic paper and the groom was playing billiards with the witnesses. "Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis", Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma