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poule


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pool  \Pool\,  n.  [F.  poule,  properly,  a  hen.  See  {Pullet}.] 
  [Written  also  {poule}.] 
  1.  The  stake  played  for  in  certain  games  of  cards,  billiards, 
  etc.;  an  aggregated  stake  to  which  each  player  has 
  contributed  a  snare;  also  the  receptacle  for  the  stakes. 
 
  2.  A  game  at  billiards,  in  which  each  of  the  players  stakes  a 
  certain  sum,  the  winner  taking  the  whole;  also  in  public 
  billiard  rooms  a  game  in  which  the  loser  pays  the 
  entrance  fee  for  all  who  engage  in  the  game;  a  game  of 
  skill  in  pocketing  the  balls  on  a  pool  table. 
 
  Note:  This  game  is  played  variously,  but  commonly  with 
  fifteen  balls,  besides  one  cue  ball,  the  contest  being 
  to  drive  the  most  balls  into  the  pockets. 
 
  He  plays  pool  at  the  billiard  houses. 
  --Thackeray. 
 
  3.  In  rifle  shooting,  a  contest  in  which  each  competitor  pays 
  a  certain  sum  for  every  shot  he  makes  the  net  proceeds 
  being  divided  among  the  winners. 
 
  4.  Any  gambling  or  commercial  venture  in  which  several 
  persons  join 
 
  5.  A  combination  of  persons  contributing  money  to  be  used  for 
  the  purpose  of  increasing  or  depressing  the  market  price 
  of  stocks,  grain,  or  other  commodities;  also  the 
  aggregate  of  the  sums  so  contributed;  as  the  pool  took 
  all  the  wheat  offered  below  the  limit;  he  put  $10,000  into 
  the  pool. 
 
  6.  (Railroads)  A  mutual  arrangement  between  competing  lines, 
  by  which  the  receipts  of  all  are  aggregated,  and  then 
  distributed  pro  rata  according  to  agreement. 
 
  7.  (Law)  An  aggregation  of  properties  or  rights,  belonging  to 
  different  people  in  a  community,  in  a  common  fund,  to  be 
  charged  with  common  liabilities. 
 
  {Pin  pool},  a  variety  of  the  game  of  billiards  in  which  small 
  wooden  pins  are  set  up  to  be  knocked  down  by  the  balls. 
 
  {Pool  ball},  one  of  the  colored  ivory  balls  used  in  playing 
  the  game  at  billiards  called  pool. 
 
  {Pool  snipe}  (Zo["o]l.),  the  European  redshank.  [Prov.  Eng.] 
 
 
  {Pool  table},  a  billiard  table  with  pockets.