"Pool" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

1. A combination of persons or corporations engaged in tbe same business, or for the purpose of engaging ln a particular buslness or commercial or speculatlve ven-ture, where all contribute to a common fund, or place thelr holdings of a glven stock or otber security ln the hands and control of a managing member or compilttee, wlth the object of eliminating competltlon as between tbe several members of the pool, or of es-tabllshing a monopoly or controlling prices or rates by the welght and power of thelr combined capital, or of raislng or depressing

To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the
basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common
interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.

A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water,
as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a
reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.

The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards,
etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare;
also, the receptacle for the stakes.

An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to
different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with
common liabilities.

To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial,
speculative, or gambling transaction.

A combination of persons contributing money to be used for
the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks,
grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so
contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit;
he put $10,000 into the pool.

A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons
join.

In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a
certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided
among the winners.

A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the
receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according
to agreement.

A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a
certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard
rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who
engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool
table.