pocket billiards vs shoal

pocket billiards

noun
  • Synonym of pocket pool 

  • Any of a family of billiards games played on a specific class of billiards table, having six receptacles called pockets along the rails, in which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. 

shoal

noun
  • A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow. 

  • A shallow in a body of water. 

  • A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together. 

  • Any large number of persons or things. 

verb
  • To become shallow. 

  • To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area. 

  • To collect in a shoal; to throng. 

  • To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of. 

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