cue ball

He can't get close enough to the table to make the shots, and he puts all the English on himself and none of it on the cue ball.

Any time a lit-up cue ball talks to me, I refer the matter to higher authority.

Thus if he pockets the red ball and the cue-ball, he scores six, or if he makes a cannon and holes the red ball, five.

Bat Scanlon touched the cue ball, deftly; the ball it struck broke away at a sharp angle and vanished into a pocket.

Where the cue-ball, resting on the edge of a pocket, drops into it before the striker has time to play.