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Cue stick

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A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically pool cue, snooker cue, or billiards cue), is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. [1]

56 relations: Acer saccharum, Aluminium, Artistic billiards, Baize, Bath, Somerset, Billiard ball, Billiard hall, Brass, Carbon fiber reinforced polymer, Carom billiards, Cocobolo, Cordia, Dime (United States coin), Ebony, Fiberglass, François Mingaud, Fraxinus, French language, George Balabushka, Golf club, Graphite, Haywards Heath, Hustling, Joe Davis, John Parris, John Spencer (snooker player), Leather, Linen, Longoni, Maple, Mark Williams (snooker player), Medford, Oregon, Melamine resin, Memory foam, Moori Kobo, Nacre, Natural rubber, New York City, Nickel (United States coin), North America, Nylon, Oxford, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Paris, Paul Hunter (snooker player), Phenol formaldehyde resin, Plaster, Pool (cue sports), Snooker, ..., Sport, Stainless steel, Terry Griffiths, Transworld Publishers, Trick shot, Wood. Expand index (6 more) »

Acer saccharum

Acer saccharum, the sugar maple or rock maple, is a species of maple native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada, from Nova Scotia west through Quebec and southern Ontario to southeastern Manitoba around Lake of the Woods, and the northern parts of the Central and Eastern United States, from Minnesota eastward to the highlands of the eastern states.

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Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Artistic billiards

Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, is a carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty.

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Baize

Baize is a coarse woollen (or in cheaper variants cotton) cloth.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Billiard ball

A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker.

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Billiard hall

A billiard/billiards, pool or snooker hall (or '''parlour'''/'''parlor''', room or club; sometimes compounded as poolhall, poolroom, etc.) is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards.

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Brass

Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.

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Carbon fiber reinforced polymer

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer, carbon fiber reinforced plastic or carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP or often simply carbon fiber, carbon composite or even carbon), is an extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastic which contains carbon fibers.

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Carom billiards

Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole (and in some cases used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive), is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds.

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Cocobolo

Cocobolo is a tropical hardwood of Central American trees belonging to the genus Dalbergia.

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Cordia

Cordia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae.

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Dime (United States coin)

The dime, in U.S. usage, is a ten-cent coin, one tenth of a United States dollar, labeled formally as "one dime".

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Ebony

Ebony is a dense black hardwood, most commonly yielded by several different species in the genus Diospyros, which also contains the persimmons.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (US) or fibreglass (UK) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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François Mingaud

Captain François Mingaud (sometimes spelled Mingot, Mengaud or Minguad, and often referred to simply as M. Mingaud; born 4 January 1771 Le Cailar, Nîmes, France, died 23 December 1847, Rotterdam, Netherlands) was an infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, English name ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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George Balabushka

George Balabushka (Russian: Григорий Антонович Балабушка Grigoriy Antonovich Balabushka; December 9, 1912 – December 5, 1975) was a Russian-born billiards (pool) cue maker, arguably the most prominent member of that profession, and is sometimes referred to as "the Stradivarius of cuemakers".

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Golf club

A golf club is a club used to hit a golf ball in a game of golf.

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Graphite

Graphite, archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline allotrope of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and a form of coal.

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Haywards Heath

Haywards Heath is a town in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex, England.

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Hustling

Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing.

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Joe Davis

Joseph Davis, (15 April 1901 – 10 July 1978) was an English professional snooker and English billiards player.

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John Parris

John Parris (born 1952), of Forest Hill, London, England, is one of the most renowned manufacturers of handmade snooker cues in the world.

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John Spencer (snooker player)

John Spencer (18 September 1935 – 11 July 2006) was an English professional snooker player who won the World Professional title at his first attempt, was the first winner at the Crucible Theatre, was the inaugural winner of the Masters and Irish Masters and was the first player to make a 147 break in competition.

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Leather

Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides, mostly cattle hide.

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Linen

Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.

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Longoni

Longoni SRL is one of the most prominent European manufacturers of high-end cue sticks.

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees or shrubs commonly known as maple.

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Mark Williams (snooker player)

Mark James Williams, (born 21 March 1975) is a Welsh professional snooker player who is a three-time and the current World Champion, winning in 2000, 2003 and 2018.

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Medford, Oregon

Medford is a city in, and county seat of, Jackson County, Oregon, United States.

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Melamine resin

Melamine resin or melamine formaldehyde (also shortened to melamine) is a hard, thermosetting plastic material made from melamine and formaldehyde by polymerization.

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Memory foam

Memory foam consists mainly of polyurethane as well as additional chemicals increasing its viscosity and density.

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Moori Kobo

is a Japanese manufacturer of billiards and pool cue tips.

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Nacre

Nacre (also), also known as mother of pearl, is an organic-inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer; it also makes up the outer coating of pearls.

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Natural rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nickel (United States coin)

A nickel, in American usage, is a five-cent coin struck by the United States Mint.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Nylon

Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, based on aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Paul Hunter (snooker player)

Paul Alan Hunter (14 October 1978 – 9 October 2006) was a British professional snooker player.

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Phenol formaldehyde resin

Phenol formaldehyde resins (PF) or phenolic resins are synthetic polymers obtained by the reaction of phenol or substituted phenol with formaldehyde.

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Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective and/or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.

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Pool (cue sports)

Pool is a cue sport played on a table with six pockets along the, into which balls are deposited.

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Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport which originated among British Army officers stationed in India in the latter half of the 19th century.

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Sport

Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

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Stainless steel

In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox from French inoxydable (inoxidizable), is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5% chromium content by mass.

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Terry Griffiths

Terrence "Terry" Griffiths, (born 16 October 1947) is a retired Welsh snooker player and current snooker coach and pundit.

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Transworld Publishers

Transworld Publishers Inc. is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups.

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Trick shot

A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.

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Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_stick

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