From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pool \Pool\, n. [F. poule, properly, a hen. See {Pullet}.]
[Written also {poule}.]
1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards,
etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has
contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
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2. A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a
certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public
billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the
entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of
skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
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Note: This game is played variously, but commonly with
fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being
to drive the most balls into the pockets.
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He plays pool at the billiard houses.
--Thackeray.
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3. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays
a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds
being divided among the winners.
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4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several
persons join.
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5. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for
the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price
of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the
aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took
all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into
the pool.
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6. (Railroads) A mutual arrangement between competing lines,
by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then
distributed pro rata according to agreement.
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7. (Law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to
different people in a community, in a common fund, to be
charged with common liabilities.
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{Pin pool}, a variety of the game of billiards in which small
wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls.
{Pool ball}, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing
the game at billiards called pool.
{Pool snipe} (Zool.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.]
{Pool table}, a billiard table with pockets.
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From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]:
poule /pul/
chicken; fowl
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