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Definition of String line
1. Noun. Line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game.
Lexicographical Neighbors of String Line
Literary usage of String line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"iolite, cordierite. cordon, m. string, cord; strand; band, tape; ribbon; row,
string, line, string; cordon; border; milled edge (of a coin). ..."
2. The Practice of Railway Surveying and Permanent Way Work by Samuel Wright Perrott, F. E. G. Badger (1920)
"of road intersects with the vertical cross hair the string line vertically above
the exact position of peg o, which is then driven and the string line again ..."
3. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"The pin nearest the string line is No. 1 ; that to the right of it is No. 2 ; to
the left, No. 3 ; the pin farthest from the string line is No. ..."
4. The American Hoyle: Or, Gentleman's Hand-book of Games, Containing All the by William Brisbane Dick (1894)
"When the striker is in hand, should he play at any ball that is within the
string-line, or if, when in hand, he plays from any position not within the ..."
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