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Definition of Poules

poule
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. 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. 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. He plays pool at the billiard houses. --Thackeray. 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. 4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join. 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. 6. (Railroads) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement. 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. 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 (Zo["o]l.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.] Pool table, a billiard table with pockets.

Meaning of Poules from wikipedia

- Fournier (2005). L'élevage des poules. Paris: Artémis. ISBN 9782844163509. Jean-Claude Périquet (2015). Races de poules et de coqs de France. Paris: Editions...
- Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Belle Poule, from the French meaning Beautiful Chicken: HMS Belle Poule (1780) was a 36-gun fifth rate captured from...
- Nuttall, Laurent Bessol, Caroline Lesage (2020). Le guide Larousse des poules et du poulailler (in French). [Paris]: Larousse. ISBN 9782035939647. J....
- Poule, chapon, or poularde au riz is a dish in French cuisine consisting of a poached or braised chicken served with rice cooked in the chicken's cooking...
- poules-racesdefrance.fr (in French). 5 March 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2023. SCAF. Standard officiel des volailles. "La Bourbonnaise – Les Poules de...
- and guine in many other parts of Latin America, feuilles ave, herbe aux poules, petevere a odeur ail, and, in Trinidad, as mapurite (pronounced Ma-po-reete)...
- Houndstooth is a pattern of alternating light and dark checks used on fabric. It is also known as hounds tooth check, hound's tooth (and similar spellings)...
- Poule-les-Écharmeaux (French pronunciation: [pul le.z‿eʃaʁmo]) is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. Communes of the Rhône department...
- Coden. It was named by the original French colonists as the Riviere aux Poules, which can be translated into English as Fowl River. The famed Irish pirate...
- The Aux Belles Poules (French: literally to beautiful hens, poule is a colloquialism for prostitutes) was a well-known Parisian maison close (brothel)...