billiard marker

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billiard marker - a device for keeping the score in a game of billiards

device - an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"

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True, the billiard marker employed there might make a good games master, while the chefs might teach cooking, but I'm not sure what the gardeners will do.

The lady vanishes

By 1878 a "billiard marker" had been added to a list of staff which then numbered 22.

Days of gentlemen's club'over the border'

The fanciful eight-canto poem describes the sea voyage of a bellman, boots (bootblack), bonnet maker, barrister, broker, billiard marker, banker, beaver, baker, and butcher, and their search for the elusive, undefined snark.