Pool
a game played on a pool table. same as a billiard table, excepting the fact that it has four or six apertures in the rails, through one of which it is necessary to drive a ball to make a from the force imparted by being struck by the cue ball. A pyramid of 15 balls is placed at a given spot on the table and the game is ended, if there are but two as that is a majority of the 15 object balls. Variations in this game have been introduced.
POONA total receipts of each company are Also, an arrangement between several total receipts of each company are pooled, and distributed pro rata according to agreement. A combination of persons contributing money to be used, for the purpose of increasing or depress view to the settlement of differences, ing the market price of stocks, with a Also the stock or money contributed by in by several persons; the joint stake or a clique to carry through a corner. fund contributed by such persons. In Also, a gambling enterprise participated arrangement that each competitor pays rifle shooting, firing for prizes on the proceeds of the day, after deduction of a certain sum for each shot, and all the among the winners. the necessary expenses, are divided land; 5 miles W. of Bournemouth and 30 POOLE, a seaport of Dorsetshire, Eng- E. of Dorchester. It stands on the N. side of Poole Harbor (7 by 44 miles), an irregular inlet, formed by the projection of the "isle" of Purbeck, almost dry at low water, and having four tides a just within the narrow entrance to the harbor, is a castle, dating from the time town hall (1572), a g of Henry VIII harbor, is a castle, dating from the time Poole itself has an old town house (1822), considerable shiptown house (1822), considerable shipguildhall (1761), a trade in potter's and pipe clay. The buccaneers, smugglers, and Cromwellian men of Poole were great fighters, as soldiery. wright; born in 1792; wrote the immortal "Paul Pry," first produced at the