Billiard table

A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly woven worsted wool called baize), and surrounded by vulcanized rubber cushions, with the whole thing elevated above the floor.^[1]^{: 115, 238} More specific terms are used for specific sports, such as snooker table and pool table, and different-sized billiard balls are used on these table types. An obsolete term is billiard board, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.^[1]^: 27^[2]

^ ^a ^b Shamos, Mike (1999). The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards. New York: Lyons Press. ISBN 9781558217973 – via Internet Archive.
^ Everton, Clive (1986). The History of Snooker and Billiards (rev. ver. of The Story of Billiards and Snooker [1979] ed.). Haywards Heath, England: Partridge Press. pp. 8–11. ISBN 1-85225-013-5.

[Shamos_1999-1] Shamos, Mike (1999). The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards. New York: Lyons Press. ISBN 9781558217973 – via Internet Archive.

[Everton_1986-2] Everton, Clive (1986). The History of Snooker and Billiards (rev. ver. of The Story of Billiards and Snooker [1979] ed.). Haywards Heath, England: Partridge Press. pp. 8–11. ISBN 1-85225-013-5.

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