balkline

What does balkline mean?

balkline means "line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game".

How many syllables are in balkline?

balkline has 2 syllables and divides as bal-kline under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for balkline?

Close synonyms include baulk-line, string line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is balkline a common word?

balkline is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for balkline come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.