Agreed, I could probably have found it if I'd searched a dictionary directly, instead I searched through google (which always works for more difficult words) and found nothing relevant. Cut me some slack, I'm new here :) And I was mainly wondering whether the usage was as tongue-in-cheek as it seemed, or people were actually using an obscure meaning of the word, that's why I asked.

Thanks, I must have been searching for the word the wrong way, I kept getting irrelevant results and couldn't figure out if the verb existed or not. The usages you mention (besides the billiards one of which I have no idea) do sound kind of obsolete or obscure, or maybe they're from a dialect I haven't encountered (English is my third language).