the cloth of a billiard table

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• Billiard table — A billiard table or billiards table (or more specifically a pool table or snooker table) is a bounded table on which billiards type games are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables, regardless of whether for carom billiards, pocket… …   Wikipedia

• billiard table — noun a rectangular cloth covered table used for billiards, snooker, and some forms of pool, with six pockets at the corners and sides into which balls are struck with cues …   English new terms dictionary

• billiard cloth — noun : the smooth green woolen cloth thoroughly shrunk and felted that is used to cover billiard and pool tables * * * billiard cloth noun A green cloth for covering a billiard table • • • Main Entry: ↑billiards …   Useful english dictionary

• table — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 piece of furniture ADJECTIVE ▪ big, high, huge, large, long ▪ little, low, small ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• green cloth — noun 1. usually capitalized G&C [so called from the green covered table at which the board originally carried on its business] : a board or court of justice of the British sovereign s household that is composed of the lord steward and his… …   Useful english dictionary

• Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion — Infobox Painting| title=Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion artist=Francis Bacon year=1944 type=Oil and pastel on Sundeala board height=94 width=74 height inch=37 width inch =29 museum=Tate Britain, London Three Studies for… …   Wikipedia

• Cue sports — Billiards redirects here. For other uses, see Billiard (disambiguation). Cue sports Engraving from Charles Cotton s 1674 book, The Compleat Gamester Highest governing body World Confederation of Billiard Sports First played 15th …   Wikipedia

• cushion — cushionless, adj. cushionlike, adj. /koosh euhn/, n. 1. a soft bag of cloth, leather, or rubber, filled with feathers, air, foam rubber, etc., on which to sit, kneel, or lie. 2. anything similar in form, used to dampen shocks or to prevent… …   Universalium

• cushion — noun 1》 a bag of cloth stuffed with a mass of soft material, used as a comfortable support for sitting or leaning on. 2》 something providing support or protection against impact.     ↘the elastic lining of the sides of a billiard table, from… …   English new terms dictionary

• cushion — /ˈkʊʃən / (say kooshuhn) noun 1. a soft bag of cloth, leather, or rubber, filled with feathers, air, etc., used to sit, kneel, or lie on. 2. anything similar in appearance or use. 3. a pillow used in lace making. 4. the elastic raised rim… …  

• cushion — n. & v. n. 1 a bag of cloth etc. stuffed with a mass of soft material, used as a soft support for sitting or leaning on etc. 2 a means of protection against shock. 3 the elastic lining of the sides of a billiard table, from which the ball… …   Useful english dictionary