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   Pool , n. [AS. pōl; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf. Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll.]
   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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   A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. “The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.” 
   Shak.
   
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   Pool, n. [F. poule, properly, a hen. See Pullet.] [Written also poule.]
   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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   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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   ☞ 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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   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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   Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
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   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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   (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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   (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, 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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   Pool, v. i. To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
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