losing hazard
Americannoun
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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
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
For each winning hazard the striker receives a life; for each losing hazard he pays a life; and the taker of the three lives wins the game.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
B.—A three stroke is made by pocketing the red ball—i.e., a red winning hazard; or by pocketing the striker's ball off the red—i.e., a red losing hazard.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis
Should the player preceding the two last players make a miss, coup, or losing hazard, and decline to star, they divide the pool if they have an equal number of lives.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Hoffmann, Louis
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