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Pool \Pool\, n. [AS. p[=o]l; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G.
pfuhl; cf. Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll.]
1. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh
water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the
course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools
of Solomon. --Wyclif.
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Charity will hardly water the ground where it must
first fill a pool. --Bacon.
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The sleepy pool above the dam. --Tennyson.
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2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. "The
filthy mantled pool beyond your cell." --Shak.
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Pool \Pool\, v. i.
To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial,
speculative, or gambling transaction.
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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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Pool \Pool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pooled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pooling}.]
To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis
of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common
interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.
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Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. --U. S.
Grant.
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