单词 | trucks |
释义 | trucksn. Obsolete exc. Historical. An early form of billiards, in which an upright mark called the king was placed near one end of the table. Cf. troll-madam n. and trunk n. 16. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun] troll-madam1572 nine holes1573 pigeonholes1608 small trunksc1610 hole1611 trucks1671 roly-poly1707 Mississippi1728 bumble-puppy1794 bubble the justice1801 bagatelle1819 cockamaroo1850 pigs in clover1889 pinball1911 pinball game1911 Skee-Ball1923 Corinthian bagatelle1933 pachinko1949 Cf. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Truccare,..to play at billiards. Trucco, a kinde of play with balles vpon a table called billiards, but properly a kinde of game vsed in England with casting little bowles at a boord with thirteene holes in it.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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