losing hazard
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Now there is an easy losing hazard, if the stroke be played with the ordinary half-ball stroke, into either top pocket off the red ball.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis
If it wasn't for wengeance, I'd play at pitch and toss with it on the losing hazard.'
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Dickens, Charles
A long jenny is a losing hazard off a ball similarly placed into one of the top pockets.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis
In the case of a cannon and a losing hazard, made by the same stroke, the value of the hazard depends on the ball first struck.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
A Jenny is a losing hazard into one of the middle pockets off a ball near to one of the lower-side cushions.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
