balkline
- n line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game
- It was the first three-cushion tournament Cochran, balkline champion in 1928, had ever entered.
- Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline billiard champion of the world before he had a beard, now challenger to the German, Eric Hagenlacher, he was making a final effort to get his .