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plural caramboles
Archaic form of carambola. (star fruit) examples
third-person singular simple present caramboles, present participle caramboling, simple past and past participle caramboled
(archaic) To play a carom shot. quotations
If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary's ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
1799, Sporting Magazine, volume 13, page 49