Why is a Pool Cue called a Pool Cue?

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In the late 1600's, the cue stick was developed. When the ball lay near a rail, the mace was inconvenient to use because of its large head. In that situation, the players would turn the mace around and use its handle to strike the ball. The handle was called a "queue" - meaning "tail" - from which we get the word "cue". For a long time only men were allowed to use the cue while women were forced to use the mace because it was felt that they were more likely to rip the cloth with the sharper cue.

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The same reason a snooker cue is called a snooker cue.

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The cue stick was developed in the late 1600’s. When the ball lay near a rail, the mace was very inconvenient to use because of its large head. In such a case, the players would turn the mace around and use its handle to strike the ball. The handle was called a "queue" meaning "tail" from which we get the word "cue." For a long time only men were allowed to use the cue; women were forced to use the mace because it was felt they were more likely to rip the cloth with the shaper cue.

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Cue: A long tapered rod with a leather tip used to strike the cue ball in billiards and pool. So if its pool its a pool cue if its snooker its a snooker pool

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Perhaps because it is used to play pool - duh

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Because that is what a pool cue is called.

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the original name was Tygophenus but everyone agreed that was extremely silly

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Looked it up on Askoxford.com.

Cue: ORIGIN originally meaning ‘long plait or pigtail’: variant of QUEUE.

Queue: ORIGIN originally as a heraldic term denoting an animal’s tail, later a long plait: from French, from Latin cauda ‘tail’;

(I cannot find out why Pool is called Pool, though)

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the same reason a football is called a football . cos you play.yep football with it..

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Because it's not called a chicken!

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because you use it for pool, its like the same as running shoes, you use them for running

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If it's not called a Pool Cue what do you think we should call it? "Fook Cue" . Only Kidding guys

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