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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An iron-headed golf club with the face slanted at a greater angle than any other iron except a wedge; a nine iron.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of club used in the game of golf, having a dumpy cup-shaped iron head. It is used to jerk the ball out of sand, ruts, rough ground, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun golf (dated) A metal headed golf club with a large highly lofted head. Replaced by a sand iron or wedge in a modern set of clubs

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an iron with considerable loft

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Origin unknown.]

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  • "Joan Benbow, driving ambitiously, had watched her ball land, leap forward in a series of diminishing arcs, and come to rest in Hibbett's Hole. (Hibbett was a Victorian golfer, one of John Company's colonels, who died in harness, his enlarged spleen bursting almost simultaneously with a good niblick in the bunker now called after him.)"

    Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater, p 94 of the Orkney Edition hardcover

    November 24, 2011