"carpetball" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: carpetballs [plural]
Etymology: carpet + ball Etymology templates: {{compound|en|carpet|ball}} carpet + ball Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} carpetball (countable and uncountable, plural carpetballs)
  1. (uncountable) A game, similar to pool and played with pool balls, played in a long, high-walled table. Each player gets five balls to arrange however they want at their end of the table, and they take turns trying to knock each other's balls into troughs at each end of the table. The player who knocks down all five of the other player's balls first is the winner. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-carpetball-en-noun-HNxcsy4Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 80 20
  2. (historical, countable) A heavy ceramic or stone ball that was rolled along the floor in some games. Tags: countable, historical
    Sense id: en-carpetball-en-noun-JawkFs39
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: carpet ball Related terms: carpet pool

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