carom
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Carom billiards is played on a pocketless table with only three balls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last year, the idea that billiards lacked social prestige gave rise to institutions like Manhattan's Carom Club for socialite and celebrated billiardists.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Carom" cried Duhamel, in a frenzy of apprehension.
From The Trampling of the Lilies by Sabatini, Rafael
"Read him?" cried Carom forgetting for the moment the sore condition of his body in the delight of discovering one who was bound to him by such bonds of sympathy as old Rousseau established.
From The Trampling of the Lilies by Sabatini, Rafael
The Cushion Carom game is a variety of the ordinary three-ball game, in which no carom counts unless the cue-ball touches a cushion before the carom is completed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
