Masse definition

mă-sā
A stroke in billiards and pool made by hitting the cue ball off center with the handle of the cue held high, so as to make the ball move in a curve around another ball before hitting the object ball.
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A stroke in billiards made by striking the cue ball off center with the cue held nearly vertically, so that the cue ball moves in a curve around one ball before hitting another ball.
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(billiards) A stroke made with the cue held vertically that puts tremendous spin on the cue ball.
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Origin of masse

  • French from past participle of masser to make a massé shot from masse mace (an early form of billiard cue) from Old French club mace1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Masse Sentence Examples

  • They were arrested en masse on the night of the 26th of June; their goods were sequestrated, and they themselves deported to Havana, then to Cadiz, Genoa, and eventually Corsica.

  • On his return he was added to the Committee of Public Safety, which had decreed the arrest en masse of all suspects and the establishment of a revolutionary army, caused the extraordinary criminal tribunal to be named officially "Revolutionary Tribunal" (on the 29th of October 1793), demanded the execution of Marie Antoinette and then attacked Hebert and Danton.

  • In this year military measures at last succeeded against the Hamawand tribe, which fled en masse to Persian territory.

  • The disorganization and anarchy in the Turkish empire at the beginning of the 19th century gave the Serbs their opportunity, and the people rose en masse against its oppressors (January 1804).

  • The Lombard republicans had been greatly weakened by the events of 1848, but Mazzini still believed that a bold act by a few revolutionists would make the people rise en masse and expel the Austrians.

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