half-buttn.
Billiards.
A cue intermediate in length between the ordinary cue and the long butt, used to reach a ball beyond the distance for which the ordinary cue is available. (Like the long butt it is made with a piece of heavy wood at the butt-end, to balance the weight of the longer end, which is of light wood.)
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billiard-stick1588
stick1611
tack1688
mace1727
mast1731
cue1749
billiard-mace1785
long butt1846
quarter butt1869
half-butt1896
1896 Badminton Libr., Billiards 97 Half-butts and long-butts, on account of their length, have to be made of pine for lightness' sake..They are cumbrous things, and a disagreeable necessity.
1896 Badminton Libr., Billiards 115 [To be] obliged to use the rest, and, worse still, the half-butt and long-butt, is at any time a drawback.
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