POOL

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pōl; akin to Old High German pfuol ~ Date: before 12th century 1. a. a small and rather deep body of usually fresh water, a quiet place in a stream, a body of water forming above a dam, something resembling a ~ , a small body of standing liquid, a continuous area of porous sedimentary rock that yields petroleum or gas, swimming ~ , II. intransitive verb Date: 1626 to form a ~, to accumulate or become static (as in the veins of a bodily part), III. noun see: pullet Date: 1708 1. an aggregate stake to which each player of a game has contributed, all the money bet by a number of persons on a particular event, 2. a game played on an English billiard table in which each of the players stakes a sum and the winner takes all, any of various games of billiards played on an oblong table having 6 pockets with usually 15 object balls, an aggregation of the interests or property of different persons made to further a joint undertaking by subjecting them to the same control and a common liability, a readily available supply: as, the whole quantity of a particular material present in the body and available for function or the satisfying of metabolic demands, a body product (as blood) collected from many donors and stored for later use, a group of people available for some purpose , gene ~ , a group of journalists from usually several news organizations using ~ed resources (as television equipment) to produce shared coverage especially of events to which access is restricted, IV. transitive verb Date: 1879 to combine (as resources) in a common ~ or effort