Poule

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pool \Pool\, n. [F. poule, properly, a hen. See {Pullet}.]
     [Written also {poule}.]
     1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards,
        etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has
        contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
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     2. A game at billiards, in which each of the players 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 game of
        skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
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     Note: This game is played variously, but commonly with
           fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being
           to drive the most balls into the pockets.
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                 He plays pool at the billiard houses.
                                                    --Thackeray.
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     3. 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.
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     4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several
        persons join.
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     5. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for
        the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price
        of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the
        aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took
        all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into
        the pool.
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     6. (Railroads) A mutual arrangement between competing lines,
        by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then
        distributed pro rata according to agreement.
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     7. (Law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to
        different people in a community, in a common fund, to be
        charged with common liabilities.
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     {Pin pool}, a variety of the game of billiards in which small
        wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls.
  
     {Pool ball}, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing
        the game at billiards called pool.
  
     {Pool snipe} (Zool.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.]
  
     {Pool table}, a billiard table with pockets.
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