A billiard table or billiards table (or more specifically a pool table or snooker table) is a bounded table A table is an item of furniture comprised of an open, flat surface supported by a base or legs. It may be used to hold articles such as food or papers at a convenient or comfortable height when sitting, and is therefore often used in conjunction with chairs. Unlike many earlier table designs, most modern tables do not have drawers, although they on which billiards-type games (cue sports Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber cushions) are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables, regardless of whether for carom billiards, pool Pool, also known as pocket billiards, is the general term for a family of games played on a pool table, with 6 receptacles called pockets along the rails, in which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Cue sports that are played on pocketless tables are generally referred to as carom billiards or snooker Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regulation table is 12 ft × 6 ft (3.6 m x 1.8 m). It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours, provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering. Slate is frequently grey in colour especially, that is covered with cloth and surrounded by rubber cushions, with the whole elevated above the floor.[1] An obsolete term is billiard board, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.[2][3]
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