billiardsn.

/ˈbɪljədz/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s balliards, 1600s billards, billiars, billyards. The singular billiard is used only in combination (see Compounds 1).

Etymology: < French billard, Old French also billart , the game; so named < billard ‘a cue,’ originally ‘a stick with curved end, a hockey-stick,’ diminutive of bille piece of wood, stick: see billet n.² and -ard suffix. In English introduced only as the name of the game, and made plural as in draughts, skittles, bowls, and other names of games.

With singular agreement. A game played with small solid ivory balls on a rectangular table having a smooth cloth-covered horizontal surface, the balls being driven about, according to the rules of the game, by means of long tapering sticks called cues.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun]

billiards1591

pool1797

snooker1889

pill1896

nine-ball1915

1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 803 With all the thriftles games that may be found..With dice, with cards, with balliards.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trucco, a kinde of play with balles vpon a table, called billiards.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Billiard, a short and thicke trunchion, or cudgell: hence..the sticke wherewith we touch the ball at billyards.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 3 Let it alone, let's to Billards .

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iii. 8 You Sot, says she, you..spend your Time at Billiards, [etc.]

1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 2 Nothing is known about Billiards prior to the middle of the sixteenth century.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

billiard-ball n.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > ball

bowl1530

billiard-balla1637

pool ball1838

roly-poly1850

ivory1888

a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods ii. ix. 20 in Wks. (1640) III And cheeke..Smooth as is the Billiard Ball.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. xv. 408 Not all the sense of pain or pleasure in the world could lift a stone or move a billiard-ball.

billiard-club n.

billiard-cue n.

billiard-hall n.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > place for play

billiard-roomc1702

pool room1861

billiard-hall1873

pool parlour1876

pool hall1878

pool joint1914

1873 Winfield (Kansas) Courier 18 Jan. 3/2 The lower room will soon be occupied..as a saloon and billiard hall.

1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 125 And uses noclass billiardhalls with an upandown ladder?

billiard-player n.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > player

billiard-player1790

billiardist1865

cueist1870

pool shark1886

knight of the cue1887

pool shooter1896

1790 T. Wilkinson Mem. Own Life IV. 228 This was of infinite service to Mr. Fleetwood as a billiard player.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xviii. 321 The Vicar was a first-rate billiard-player.

billiard-playing n.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > playing

billiard-playing1807

pool shooting1860

1807 J. R. Shaw Life (1930) 76 Men of diabolical principles..employed in..horse-racing, billiard-playing, [etc.].

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xiii. 509 Billiard-playing, rifle-shooting, tight-rope-dancing, demand the most delicate appreciation of minute disparities of sensation.

billiard-room n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > place for play

billiard-roomc1702

pool room1861

billiard-hall1873

pool parlour1876

pool hall1878

pool joint1914

c1702 C. Fiennes Journeys (1947) iii. iv. 172 Out of the billiard roome the first was with gravell walks and a large fountaine.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xiii. 259 Maria, Julia, Henry Crawford, and Mr. Yates, were in the billiard room .

1816 U. Brown in Maryland Hist. Mag. 10 265 Dined and fed at Jesse Brown's Hotel, an Inn kept in High Stile with Billiard Room.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) viii. 68 Tall doors with stag's heads over them, leading to the billiard-room and the library.

billiard-sharper n.

billiard-sharping n.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play

raking1674

coup1744

Whitechapel play1755

bricole1775

trailing1775

star1839

cannoning1841

safety1844

spotting1849

billiard-sharping1865

stringing1873

safety play1896

potting1909

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Aug. 2/2 He meant to climb in the world to all that was pure and heroic by billiard-sharping.

billiard-stick n.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > cue

billiard-stick1588

stick1611

tack1688

mace1727

mast1731

cue1749

billiard-mace1785

long butt1846

quarter butt1869

half-butt1896

1588 in Notes & Queries (1915) XI. 227 Three billyard stickes and one porte and ij balles of yvery.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1679 (1955) IV. 190 They for the most part use the sharp & small end of the billiard-stick, which is shod with brasse or silver.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1817) 52 When..the billiard-stick strikes the first or white ball.

C2.

Categories »

billiard-cloth n. fine green woollen cloth used for covering billiard-tables.

billiard-mace n. (also †billiard-mast) a rod furnished with a head or knob used to propel the ball in billiards.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > cue

billiard-stick1588

stick1611

tack1688

mace1727

mast1731

cue1749

billiard-mace1785

long butt1846

quarter butt1869

half-butt1896

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 221 What was an hour-glass once Becomes a dice-box, and a billiard-mast [1806 -mace] Well does the work of his destructive scythe.

billiard-marker n. a person who marks the ‘points’ made by each player, and keeps account of the progress of the game; also, a counting apparatus for registering results.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > score > marker

billiard-marker1775

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. i Seven..waiters, and thirteen billiard-markers.

billiard-marking n.

billiard-table n. the large table on which the game of billiards is played; usually 12 ft. by 6 ft., covered with fine green cloth, surrounded by a cushioned ledge, and provided with six ‘pockets’ at the corners and sides for the reception of the balls; also in extended use and attributively to describe a perfectly smooth road, green, etc.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table

billiard board1583

billiard-table1641

pool table1860

green cloth1891

the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [adjective]

eveneOE

plainc1330

platc1395

planirc1450

level1538

flat1551

evenlya1586

plane1666

unraised1694

planary1724

dead1782

flush1791

square1814

billiard-table1887

1641 in Notes & Queries (1915) XI. 227 A billiard table and three bearers.

1677 J. Evelyn Mem. 10 Sept. The gallery is a pleasant, noble room: in the..middle, is a billiard-table.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 54. ⁋4 Bowling-Greens, Billiard-Tables, and such like Places.

1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field vii. 107 We do not play cricket..on billiard tables.

1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia viii. 190 An immense tract of high grass, as level as a billiard-table.

1887 F. Gale Game of Cricket ix. viii. 183 Pougher [printed Pongher]..got seven wickets..for 116 runs, on a billiard-table ground.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 4/2 A land of billiard-table roads.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 Mar. 12/2 The billiard-table smoothness of the putting green.

Draft additions September 2013

billiard board n. = billiard-table n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table

billiard board1583

billiard-table1641

pool table1860

green cloth1891

1583 in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) 206 For a billyerd borde lvs.

1609 G. Markham Famovs Whore sig. D4 At dice, at billiard board, at boule or bow, Was none in Rome but I could ouergoe.

1785 R. Polwhele Follies of Oxf. 13 The high-bred Youth..Who loud would hail the Billiard-board.

1858 Househ. Words 4 Dec. 4/1 A sharp, defined, level billiard-board Macadam road.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xi. 182 A running commentary from the captain..jests.., like the similar pleasantries of the billiard board, perennially relished.

1906 Scotsman 5 May 10 All the prayer in the world will not bring two balls together on the billiard board.

2004 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 28 Feb. 9 Also in this sale are three flat irons, used commercially once upon a time for pressing tailor's seams or the green baize cloth on billiard boards or card tables.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	billiards
释义	billiardsn. /ˈbɪljədz/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s balliards, 1600s billards, billiars, billyards. The singular billiard is used only in combination (see Compounds 1). Etymology: < French billard, Old French also billart , the game; so named < billard ‘a cue,’ originally ‘a stick with curved end, a hockey-stick,’ diminutive of bille piece of wood, stick: see billet n.² and -ard suffix. In English introduced only as the name of the game, and made plural as in draughts, skittles, bowls, and other names of games. With singular agreement. A game played with small solid ivory balls on a rectangular table having a smooth cloth-covered horizontal surface, the balls being driven about, according to the rules of the game, by means of long tapering sticks called cues. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] billiards1591 pool1797 snooker1889 pill1896 nine-ball1915 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 803 With all the thriftles games that may be found..With dice, with cards, with balliards. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trucco, a kinde of play with balles vpon a table, called billiards. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Billiard, a short and thicke trunchion, or cudgell: hence..the sticke wherewith we touch the ball at billyards. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 3 Let it alone, let's to Billards . View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses iii. 8 You Sot, says she, you..spend your Time at Billiards, [etc.] 1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 2 Nothing is known about Billiards prior to the middle of the sixteenth century. Compounds C1. General attributive. billiard-ball n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > ball bowl1530 billiard-balla1637 pool ball1838 roly-poly1850 ivory1888 a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods ii. ix. 20 in Wks. (1640) III And cheeke..Smooth as is the Billiard Ball. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. xv. 408 Not all the sense of pain or pleasure in the world could lift a stone or move a billiard-ball. billiard-club n. billiard-cue n. billiard-hall n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > place for play billiard-roomc1702 pool room1861 billiard-hall1873 pool parlour1876 pool hall1878 pool joint1914 1873 Winfield (Kansas) Courier 18 Jan. 3/2 The lower room will soon be occupied..as a saloon and billiard hall. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 125 And uses noclass billiardhalls with an upandown ladder? billiard-player n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > player billiard-player1790 billiardist1865 cueist1870 pool shark1886 knight of the cue1887 pool shooter1896 1790 T. Wilkinson Mem. Own Life IV. 228 This was of infinite service to Mr. Fleetwood as a billiard player. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xviii. 321 The Vicar was a first-rate billiard-player. billiard-playing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > playing billiard-playing1807 pool shooting1860 1807 J. R. Shaw Life (1930) 76 Men of diabolical principles..employed in..horse-racing, billiard-playing, [etc.]. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xiii. 509 Billiard-playing, rifle-shooting, tight-rope-dancing, demand the most delicate appreciation of minute disparities of sensation. billiard-room n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > place for play billiard-roomc1702 pool room1861 billiard-hall1873 pool parlour1876 pool hall1878 pool joint1914 c1702 C. Fiennes Journeys (1947) iii. iv. 172 Out of the billiard roome the first was with gravell walks and a large fountaine. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xiii. 259 Maria, Julia, Henry Crawford, and Mr. Yates, were in the billiard room . View more context for this quotation 1816 U. Brown in Maryland Hist. Mag. 10 265 Dined and fed at Jesse Brown's Hotel, an Inn kept in High Stile with Billiard Room. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) viii. 68 Tall doors with stag's heads over them, leading to the billiard-room and the library. billiard-sharper n. billiard-sharping n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play raking1674 coup1744 Whitechapel play1755 bricole1775 trailing1775 star1839 cannoning1841 safety1844 spotting1849 billiard-sharping1865 stringing1873 safety play1896 potting1909 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Aug. 2/2 He meant to climb in the world to all that was pure and heroic by billiard-sharping. billiard-stick n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > cue billiard-stick1588 stick1611 tack1688 mace1727 mast1731 cue1749 billiard-mace1785 long butt1846 quarter butt1869 half-butt1896 1588 in Notes & Queries (1915) XI. 227 Three billyard stickes and one porte and ij balles of yvery. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1679 (1955) IV. 190 They for the most part use the sharp & small end of the billiard-stick, which is shod with brasse or silver. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1817) 52 When..the billiard-stick strikes the first or white ball. C2. Categories » billiard-cloth n. fine green woollen cloth used for covering billiard-tables. billiard-mace n. (also †billiard-mast) a rod furnished with a head or knob used to propel the ball in billiards. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > cue billiard-stick1588 stick1611 tack1688 mace1727 mast1731 cue1749 billiard-mace1785 long butt1846 quarter butt1869 half-butt1896 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 221 What was an hour-glass once Becomes a dice-box, and a billiard-mast [1806 -mace] Well does the work of his destructive scythe. billiard-marker n. a person who marks the ‘points’ made by each player, and keeps account of the progress of the game; also, a counting apparatus for registering results. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > score > marker billiard-marker1775 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. i Seven..waiters, and thirteen billiard-markers. billiard-marking n. billiard-table n. the large table on which the game of billiards is played; usually 12 ft. by 6 ft., covered with fine green cloth, surrounded by a cushioned ledge, and provided with six ‘pockets’ at the corners and sides for the reception of the balls; also in extended use and attributively to describe a perfectly smooth road, green, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table billiard board1583 billiard-table1641 pool table1860 green cloth1891 the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > [adjective] eveneOE plainc1330 platc1395 planirc1450 level1538 flat1551 evenlya1586 plane1666 unraised1694 planary1724 dead1782 flush1791 square1814 billiard-table1887 1641 in Notes & Queries (1915) XI. 227 A billiard table and three bearers. 1677 J. Evelyn Mem. 10 Sept. The gallery is a pleasant, noble room: in the..middle, is a billiard-table. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 54. ⁋4 Bowling-Greens, Billiard-Tables, and such like Places. 1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field vii. 107 We do not play cricket..on billiard tables. 1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia viii. 190 An immense tract of high grass, as level as a billiard-table. 1887 F. Gale Game of Cricket ix. viii. 183 Pougher [printed Pongher]..got seven wickets..for 116 runs, on a billiard-table ground. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 4/2 A land of billiard-table roads. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 Mar. 12/2 The billiard-table smoothness of the putting green. Draft additions September 2013 billiard board n. = billiard-table n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > table billiard board1583 billiard-table1641 pool table1860 green cloth1891 1583 in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) 206 For a billyerd borde lvs. 1609 G. Markham Famovs Whore sig. D4 At dice, at billiard board, at boule or bow, Was none in Rome but I could ouergoe. 1785 R. Polwhele Follies of Oxf. 13 The high-bred Youth..Who loud would hail the Billiard-board. 1858 Househ. Words 4 Dec. 4/1 A sharp, defined, level billiard-board Macadam road. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xi. 182 A running commentary from the captain..jests.., like the similar pleasantries of the billiard board, perennially relished. 1906 Scotsman 5 May 10 All the prayer in the world will not bring two balls together on the billiard board. 2004 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 28 Feb. 9 Also in this sale are three flat irons, used commercially once upon a time for pressing tailor's seams or the green baize cloth on billiard boards or card tables. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1583
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