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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Balkline as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
There are two usages of the cue sport term balkline. The first is that it is the name of a type of carom billiard game. Balkline billiards is a game that was created to prevent or eliminate extremely high runs in straight rail billiards. The second usage for the term balkline is to refer to the horizontal line that is drawn from a point on a billiard table's rail to the exact spot on the opposite rail. The purpose of the balkline is to mark the area of a balkline table in which only a specified number of caroms can be scored by the shooting player before he or she must cause one ball to leave that area. The term balkline should not be confused with the term baulk line.
I like to play balkline billiards because it is a more challenging game than 8 ball.
The balkline definition was entered on 12/1/2006 and was updated on 10/24/2007 9:48:08 AM. It is a cue sport term that is related to cue sport game names. It was entered in to the database by the Billiards Forum Editor. See also: baulk line for more on the meaning of balkline.
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