Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In billiards, a ball with its base on a line.
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Examples
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Or almost.etc. Life is a sequence of line-ball plays and depends on that fusion of skill and luck.
Cutting up the Cake Before You've Baked it. Ben Barren 2007
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Michael Beer goes flat after a line-ball delivery ON his first day as an international bowler
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Vasil wasn't making excuses but said the slow-rated surface was "line-ball" for Valdemoro.
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O'Neill came on at the break, landed two 65s, a line-ball as well as three frees from midfield while substitute Andy O'Brien made the game safe when he goaled minutes after being introduced.
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie BreakingNews.ie / TCM 2010
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Vasil wasn't making excuses but said the slow-rated surface was "line-ball" for Valdemoro.
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Vasil wasn't making excuses but said the slow-rated surface was "line-ball" for Valdemoro.
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It was panic stations in early June when Fairfax newspapers published a Nielsen poll showing the coalition seven points ahead of Labor, following line-ball results in two
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"It must've been a line-ball call … but the judges said it came down to the food," she said.
National Nine News 2010
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Cowboys coach Neil Henry agreed that both passes were line-ball and was happy for both to be let go.
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However, the ankle is still tender and coach Jarrod Twitt said it would be line-ball whether the Doggies skipper takes to the Norm Minns Oval on Saturday.
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