carpetball

English

Alternative forms

• carpet ball

Etymology

carpet +‎ ball

Noun

carpetball (countable and uncountable, plural carpetballs)

1. (uncountable) A game, similar to pool and played with pool balls, played in a long, high-walled table. Each player gets five balls to arrange however they want at their end of the table, and they take turns trying to knock each other's balls into troughs at each end of the table. The player who knocks down all five of the other player's balls first is the winner.
2. (historical, countable) A heavy ceramic or stone ball that was rolled along the floor in some games.

See also

• carpet pool