<P> A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which billiards - type games (cue sports) are played . In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly - woven worsted wool called baize), and surrounded by vulcanized rubber cushions, with the whole elevated above the floor . More specific terms are used for specific sports, such as snooker table and pool table, and different - sized billiard balls are used on these table types . An obsolete term is billiard board, used in the 16th and 17th centuries . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion with: subsections on rails, frame, etc...You can help by adding to it . (August 2007) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion with: subsections on rails, frame, etc...You can help by adding to it . (August 2007) </Td> </Tr> <P> Cushions (also sometimes called "rail cushions", "cushion rubber", or rarely "bumpers") are located on the inner sides of a table's wooden rails . There are several different materials and design philosophies associated with cushion rubber . The cushions are made from an elastic material such as vulcanized (gum or synthetic) rubber . The chiefly American jargon rails more properly applies to the wooded outer segments of the table to which the cushions are affixed . </P>

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