carom

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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 billiards is played on a pocketless table with only three balls.

From Time Magazine Archive

How any room, attic, basement or loft gives plenty of space for a real Brunswick Carom or Pocket Table--now made in sizes from 2-1/2x5 feet to 4-1/2x9 feet, regulation.

From Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)

"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

Carom, kar′om, n. an abbreviation for Carambole, the same as Cannon in billiards.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various