| 单词 | spot white |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspot white b. Billiards. With the. The white cue ball marked with a black spot (also more fully spot ball, spot white). Also: the player who plays with this ball.A yellow ball is now normally substituted for the spot in tournament play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > ball > ball in specific position object ball1857 quarter ball1857 spot1857 player1868 cue-ball1873 object white1904 1857 ‘C. Bede’ Nearer & Dearer ii. 14 I can't make out the red from the spot. 1857 ‘C. Bede’ Nearer & Dearer i. 1 ‘How is the game?’ ‘Twenty spot; ten striker.’ 1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 25 One ball is coloured red; the other two are white, but one of the white balls has a black spot on it, and is called the Spot-white. 1923 Humorist 20 Oct. 314/1 I took spot, and gave her a miss in baulk. ‘That's one to you,’ I explained. 1976 Spectator 24 Jan. 30/1 The billiards people wouldn't even let us put an R on the spot ball instead of the usual spot. 2009 S. Waddell Road Back Home (2010) xii. 207 He swooped elegantly to manoeuvre the balls, cannoning spot white to red and plain white. < as lemmas |
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