ETYM French billiard billiards, Old Fren. billart staff, cue form playing, from bille log. Related to Billet a stick.
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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.
Indoor game played, normally by two players, with tapered poles (called cues) and composition balls (one red, two white) on a rectangular table covered with a green, feltlike cloth (baize) without pockets. A variation popular in England is played on a table with six pockets, one at each corner and in each of the long sides at the middle. Scoring strokes are made by sinking the red ball, sinking the opponent's ball, or sinking another ball off one of these two. The cannon (when the cue ball hits the two other balls on the table) is another scoring stroke. + prikaži više