Pool Table Glossary of Terms

Welcome to the pool table glossary of terms. If you are fortunate enough to own a home billiard table, you'll want to really understand it. This pool and billiard table terms glossary should help you to be able to identify the key parts of the table, and learn what they do.

Pool Table Glossary of Terms

Baize	Ball Return	Ball Return System
Bar Table	Baulk	Baulk Cushion
Baulk Line	Baulkline	Bays
Bed	Big Pocket	Billiard Table
Break Box	Burnisher	Butt Sleeve
Center Pocket	Center Spot	Center String
Centre Pocket	Centre Spot	Centre String
Cloth	Corner Pocket	Creep
Crotch	Cushion	Diamond System
Diamonds	Dot	Double Shimmed
Down Table	Drop Pockets	End Rail
Felt	Foot of the Table	Foot Rail
Foot Spot	Foot String	Green
Gully	Gully System	Gully Table
Head Rail	Head Spot	Head String
Horn	In The Kitchen	Jaw
Kitchen	Knuckle	Long Rail
Long String	Middle Pocket	Nap
New Cloth Slide	Nipples	Pocket
Pocket Shelf	Pockets	Point
Pool Table	Pool Table Cloth Marks	Pyramid Spot
Rail	Rain Table	Sewer
Short Rail	Side Pocket	Side Rail
Slide	Sliding Ball	Spots
String	Table	Table Cloth
Table Roll	The D	Tit
Tits	Tittie	Titties
Top Cushion	Wet Table

The entire cue sport glossary is available via RSS/XML. Click to view the billiards forum rss feeds.

If you can't find the billiard term that you are looking for, please take a few seconds to suggest a billiard term here. Alternatively, you can view the entire list of billiard terms in alphabetical order.