单词 | massé |
释义 | masséadj.n. Billiards, Pool, etc. A. adj. Designating a shot or stroke made with the cue more or less vertical, so as to impart extra swerve to the cue ball. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [adjective] > type of stroke fluking1865 massé1873 carry-along1913 miscued1962 1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 351 The hazard may be made by a masse stroke. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 27 Feb. 2/3 The technicalities of nursery cannons, masse cannons, and winning and losing hazards. 1904 J. P. Mannock Billiards Expounded 86 By this you will see that so long as you keep your cue in a horizontal line, no fears need be experienced of causing damage to the cloth, nor need there be any on the same score when a massé shot is being attempted. 1929 Times 1 Nov. 7/4 At the end of the last of these breaks he missed a difficult massé cannon, through partly miscueing. 1983 Sci. Amer. July 119/1 The cue ball is given a massé shot, knocks in the 15 ball, misses the eight ball and heads toward the rail in a curved path because of sideways friction. B. n. A massé stroke. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke hazard1674 carambole1775 carom1779 cannon1802 screw1825 sidestroke1834 following stroke1837 cannonade1844 five-stroke1847 follow1850 scratch1850 fluke1857 jenny1857 bank shot1859 angle shot1860 draw shot1860 six-stroke1861 run-through1862 spot1868 quill1869 dead-stroke1873 loser1873 push1873 push stroke1873 stab1873 stab screw1873 draw1881 force1881 plant1884 anchor cannon1893 massé1901 angle1902 cradle-cannon1907 pot1907 jump shot1909 carry-along1913 snooker1924 1901 Q. Rev. Apr. 484 [He] played the massé well for an Englishman. 1983 Sci. Amer. July 119/1 The massé is commonly employed to send the cue ball around an obstacle to reach a hidden ball. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † massév. Obsolete. transitive. To massage (a person or part of the body). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > physiotherapy > practise physiotherapy [verb (transitive)] > massage to rub down1682 shampoo1762 mass1788 mull1828 massage1887 massé1887 1887 D. Maguire Art of Massage (ed. 4) iv. 55 We are no longer in those days when four, six, or eight persons were employed at one time to massé you. 1887 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. IV. 660 In masséing the face of a fat patient, the tissues can only be rolled and stretched under the fingers and palm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.n.1873v.1887 |
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