英语词汇“truck table”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

In early use, usually in plural. A game, similar to billiards, the object of which is to drive a ball through a hoop using a cue. Frequently in truck table.

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1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester iii. 39 Trucks is an Italian Game, and is much used in Spain and Ireland; it is not very unlike Billiards, but more boisterous, and in my opinion less gentile.

1736 Trial M. Vale 21 He would..fit up the House where Mr. George King formerly kept a Truck Table.

1798 T. Connelly & T. Higgins New Dict. Spanish & Eng. Lang. II. 172/2 The sally, or flight of the ball over the rim of the truck table, with a blow of the tack.

1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Nov. 10/1 The game spoken of above, with a cone and arch, is called by most writers a French game, and there was also another variety called ‘Trucks’, which was supposed to have originated in Italy.

1870 Field Q. Mag. & Rev. Aug. 230/1 A truck table was larger than a billiard table, and three feet longer than its breadth.

1908 tr. T. Haenke in B. F. Moses South Amer. on Eve of Emancipation i. 26 All kinds of drinks and ices are found in them [sc. the cafes], and each has its table for trucks or billiards.

2001 O. A. Rink in M. M. Klein Empire State (2005) i. v. 69 One was a billiard-like game called ‘truck’, usually played in taverns. Players used a cue to drive a ball through a wire wicket on a table, often wagering on the outcome.

单词	truck table
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