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adversary American amusement angle baulk billiard table billiard-player Bound in boards called carom game carom on ball cause centre cloth back Containing corner pocket count Cribbage dead full diagram direction effect a carom engravings forfeits forfeiture foul stroke four-ball game French gains game of billiards gilt side giving a miss hand horizontal illustrated inches ipse dixit jump Knights Templars knocked lead leave the balls losing hazard lower cushion mace marker MICHAEL PHELAN motion novice object occupied opponent opponent's ball perpendicular person placed play on ball play the stroke player plays player's ball pocket table points pool spot position practical private ball privilege red ball retrograding motion rotate rules scene score semicircle shot SIDE STROKE strength strike the cue-ball striker's ball stroke is foul struck Tableaux Vivants three-ball Timon of Athens tion touched two-ball pool white ball wrong ball