What Does Cushion Caroms Mean?

One-cushion billiards, also known as cushion carom billiards, and historically as the indirect game, is a carom billiards discipline generally played on a cloth-covered, 10-by-5-foot, pocketless billiard table with two cue balls and a third red-colored ball.

What is a cushion period?

1. Period of time during which a bond cannot be called. Interest payments are guaranteed during the cushion, but not after, as the bond may be prematurely redeemed at any point after the call date. ... A reserve account, or the function a reserve account serves, usually to pay off bad debt.

What is a cushion shot on pool?

In a one-cushion shot, the cue ball caroms off of both object balls with at least one rail being struck before the hit on the second object ball. The object of the game is to score up to an agreed upon number of cushion caroms, with one point being awarded for each successfully made.