Pony chaise, a light, low chaise, drawn by a pony or a pair of ponies.
-- Pony engine, a small locomotive for switching cars from one track to
another. [U.S.] -- Pony truck (Locomotive Engine), a truck which has
only two wheels. -- Pony truss (Bridge Building), a truss which has so
little height that overhead bracing can not be used.
Pood (?), n. [Russ. pud'.] A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian
pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.
Poo"dle (?), n. [G. pudel.] (Zoˆl.) A breed of dogs having curly hair,
and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.
Pooh (?), interj. [Of. imitative origin; cf. Icel. p.] Pshaw! pish!
nonsense! -- an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.
Pooh`-pooh" (?), v. t. To make light of; to treat with derision or
contempt, as if by saying pooh! pooh! [Colloq.] Thackeray.
||Poo"koo (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoˆl.) A red African
||antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck.
Pool (?), n. [AS. pl; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf.
Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll.] 1. A small and rather deep
collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or
occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the
pools of Solomon. Wyclif.
Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a
pool.
Bacon.
The sleepy pool above the dam.
Tennyson.
2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. "The filthy
mantled pool beyond your cell." Shak.
Pool, n. [F. poule, properly, a hen. See Pullet.] [Written also poule.]
1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an
aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also,
the receptacle for the stakes.
2. A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain
sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a
game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the
game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides
one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the
pockets.
He plays pool at the billiard houses.
Thackeray.
3. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain
sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the
winners.