Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In billiards, a diagonal line cutting off a corner, or a straight line cutting off a uniform space on each side (generally 14 inches), from the main field of the table.
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Examples
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Quarrier was in the billiard-room, out of earshot, practising balk-line problems with Major Belwether; and Fleetwood said: The same cat that tripped up Stephen Siward.
The Fighting Chance 1899
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Slosson's room, and the result was that I played him two matches at the fourteen-inch balk-line game, each one being for $50 a side, winning both, the score in the first one being 300 to 164, and in the second 300 to 194, my average in the last being 8 14-17, a performance that was at that time something better than the ordinary.
A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson Adrian Constantine Anson 1887
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The result was that I agreed to play him a match 300 points up at the fourteen-inch balk-line game for stakes of
A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson Adrian Constantine Anson 1887
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The only match that I have engaged in since those days was one that I played last fall with Conklin, a West Side amateur in Chicago, and was at the eighteen-inch balk-line game, 400 points up for stakes of $50 a side, 200 points to be played in my own room and 200 in Clark's resort.
A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson Adrian Constantine Anson 1887
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