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Carom

n.

1. a cannon in billiards or pool

v. 

1. make a carom; strike and rebound

[The Absolute Book — Elizabeth Knox]

Caryatid

n. (Architecture)

  1. a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.

[Moby-Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville]