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- noun line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game
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Balls missing the black at the beginning, those rolling back across the baulk-line, and those forced off the table are "dead" for that round and removed.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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