| 单词 |
half-butt |
| 释义 |
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 of light wood.)
1896Badminton Libr., Billiards 97 Half-butts and long-butts, on account of their length, have to be made of pine for lightness' sake..They are cumbrous things, and a disagreeable necessity. Ibid. 115 [To be] obliged to use the rest, and, worse still, the half-butt and long-butt, is at any time a drawback. |

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