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string line

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string line
n.
The balk line in billiards.

string line
n
(Group Games / Billiards & Snooker) Billiards another name for baulk line [1]
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Noun1.string line - line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game
line - in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area


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Often the composers would introduce a simple string line over the groove, adding to it gradually.
The last time Liverpool went to White Hart Lane in the Carling Cup Benitez fielded a largely second string line up and they still managed to win the game so a repeat of that tonight would be fantastic.
Xenakis's Pithoprakta, from the late 1950s, wears remarkably well: its slip-sliding, rustling web of 46 string lines, growling pedal notes from the trombones and brittle interjections from xylophone and woodblock conjures an extraordinary, hyperactive soundscape.
 
 
 
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