pool
/pul/ noun C2- A supply of resources.
- A number of people when considered as a resource. · dating pool· There is a limited pool of candidates from which to choose the new manager.
- A billiards game in which each player stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
- A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour or solids, 7 of another color or stripes, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
- In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
- A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
Plural pools
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Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs.
On the rain-pool at my feet.
Round the rain-pool sea to float.
A sailor on the rain-pool sea,
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