marker

huopakynä

leima

merkki An object used to mark a location.
Someone or something that marks.
One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
A counter used in card games and other games.
The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by crease creasing it.
A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
2013, Phil McNulty, "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24098632 Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:

Pellegrini insisted this was a game City had to win - this they did and with the sort of performance that put down a marker for how the Chilean wants his team to play.

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We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.

The Court itself, with its rent, the wages of the Marker and the tips to the Marker, the rackets and the balls, the baths and the flannels and the washing of the flannels, do much to account for the costliness of play.

Some of the native markers attain to great skill, and the brilliant success in London of " Jamsetjee " the Bombay professional affords sufficient testimony to their capabilities.

Of his victories over the curate at this game he is as proud as are others of his sex and cloth, not being old maids, of their mastery of "side" at billiards, and of an occasional victory over the club marker at evens.