- Game where the action happens right on cue - Indoor ball game - Indoor game - Snooker-like game - Table game - Table game played with balls and cues - A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered,
rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to
impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon)
two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with
which the table sometimes is furnished.
- Board game - A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a
"board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player
has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to
point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. - In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the
game before the loser is clear of his first "table".
- An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man
without property or influence. - One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood,
etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown
confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked
instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See
Spilikin.