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half-butt
half-butt Billiards. A cue intermediate in length between the ordinary cue and the long butt, used to reach a ball beyond the distance for which the ordinary cue is available. (Like the long butt it is made with a piece of heavy wood at the butt-end, to balance the weight of the longer end, which is...
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Charles Chambers (referee)
He handed over the rest of the half-butt like one serving at an altar...The voice in which he called out the scores was the most impersonal I have ever
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quarter
▪ I. quarter, n. (ˈkwɔːtə(r)) Also 4 quartare, qwatteer, 4–6 quartre, 5 quartere, -yer, wharter, qwarter, 5–6 quartar, 6 qwartter, (7 coter). [a. OF. quarter, -ier (12th c. in Littré):— L. quartār-ius a fourth part (of a measure), f. quartus fourth: see quart n.2 and -er2 2.] I. One of four equal or...
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long
▪ I. long, a.1 (lɒŋ) Forms: 1 lang, 4–5, Sc. 5–9 lang, (4 Sc. launge), 3 longue, 3–7 longe, (6 lounge), 1, 3– long. See also lenger, lengest. [Com. Teut.: OE. lang, lǫng = OFris., OS. lang, long (MDu., MLG., Du., LG. lang), OHG. lang (MHG. lanc, lang-, mod.G. lang), ON. lang-r (Da. lang, Sw. lång), ...
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