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  2. Billiard table - Wikipedia

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    The bed table – the cloth-covered, horizontal playing surface – is, on high-quality equipment, made of solid, smooth slabs of slate, most often from Italy, Brazil or China. Small pool tables may use only one or two pieces of slate, while carom, English billiards and tournament-size pool tables use three. Full-size snooker tables require five.

  3. Comparison of cue sports - Wikipedia

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    The slate beds of profession-grade carom tables are usually heated to stave off moisture and provide a consistent playing surface. [7] Most pool tables are known as 7-, 8- or 9-footers, referring to the nominal length of the playing surface's long side. The internationally standardised size for professional play is 9 by 4.5 ft (274 by 137 cm).

  4. Hendre-Ddu Tramway - Wikipedia

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    The remains of Hendre Ddu slate quarry in 2009. The Hendreddu slate quarry opened in August 1868, [2] on the north slope of Mynydd Hendre-ddu. The Hendre Ddu Slate and Slab Co. was established by Sir Edmund Buckley. The Company specialised in slate slabs for billiard table beds.

  5. Slate - Wikipedia

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    In modern homes slate is often used as table coasters. In areas where it is available, high-quality slate is used for tombstones and commemorative tablets. [36] In some cases slate was used by the ancient Maya civilization to fashion stelae. [37] Slate was the traditional material of choice for black Go stones in Japan, alongside clamshell for ...

  6. Bumper pool - Wikipedia

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    The surface of the table has the same cloth covering as a standard pool table. Two bumpers flank each pocket. [2] The remaining bumpers are arranged in a cross in the center of the table, with one line of the cross in line with the pockets. [2] At the center of the cross, there is an open space just large enough to allow a ball to pass through.

  7. Glossary of cue sports terms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.