troco
(ˈtrəʊkəʊ)
[app. altered from It. trucco ‘a billiard-boord, also the play at billiards’ (Florio, 1611); or Sp. truco the game of trucks, q.v.]
See quot.
| [1598 Florio, Trucco, a kinde of play with balles vpon a table called billiards; but properly a kinde of game vsed in England with casting little bowles at a boord with thirteene holes in it.] 1882 Ogilvie (Annandale), Troco, an old English game revived, formerly known as ‘lawn-billiards’..played on a lawn with wooden balls and a cue ending in a spoon-shaped iron projection. [But app. never so called in English. See trucks.] |