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three-cushion carom — noun : three cushion billiards … Useful english dictionary
UMB World Three-cushion Championship — The UMB World Three cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three cushion billiards, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard. Years ago, there were similar world championships held … Wikipedia
CEB European Three-cushion Championship — The CEB European Three cushion Championship is three cushion billiards tournament organized by the Confédération Européenne de Billard. Held since 1933, it one of longest running tournaments in the sport. The 2007 event offered a total purse of… … Wikipedia
Cushion caroms — Jacob Schaefer, Sr. tobacco card, circa 1880s Cushion caroms (or cushion carom billiards)[1] sometimes called by its original name, the indirect game,[2] is a carom billiards discipline generally played on a cloth covered, 5 foot ×… … Wikipedia
billiards — billiardist, n. /bil yeuhrdz/, n. (used with a sing. v.) any of several games played with hard balls of ivory or of a similar material that are driven with a cue on a cloth covered table enclosed by a raised rim of rubber, esp. a game played with … Universalium
Billiards World Cup Association — The Billiards World Cup Association (BWA) was a governing body for carom billiards, like its competitor and successor, Union Mondiale de Billard.After staging several three cushion billiards championships, BWA met its demise in 2004 due to… … Wikipedia
three cushions — noun plural but usually singular in construction see three cushion billiards … Useful english dictionary
Carom billiards — Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole and, in some cases, used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive, is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally… … Wikipedia
Five-pin billiards — This article is about the originally Italian and now internationally standardized billiard game. For the Danish five pin game, see Danish pin billiards. Five pins redirects here. For other uses, see Five pins (disambiguation). Five pin billiards… … Wikipedia
Three-ball — (or 3 ball , colloquially) is a pocket billiards folk game played with three standard pool Cuegloss|Object ball|object balls and a Cuegloss|Cue ball|cue ball. The goal is to Cuegloss|Pocket|pocket the three object balls in as few shots as… … Wikipedia
