string line

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string line

The balk line in billiards.

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string line

(Billiards & Snooker) billiards another name for baulkline¹

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string line - line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game

balkline, baulk-line

line - in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area

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