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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A golf course.
- noun plural Chiefly Scots Relatively flat or undulating sandy turf-covered ground usually along a seashore.
- noun plural A golf course located on such land or on similarly treeless sandy terrain inland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green.
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- noun Plural form of
link . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
link . - noun A
golf course , especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
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- noun a golf course that is built on sandy ground near a shore
Etymologies
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knitandpurl commented on the word links
"The word comes from Old English and refers to a coastal topography behind a beach, a somewhat dunal and undulating landscape, untillable, under bushes of prickly gorse, scattered heather, and a thin turf of marram and other grasses. Scotland is necklaced by these essentially treeless linkslands, brought up from the deep by the crustal rebounding of a region once depressed by glacial ice, links about as vulnerable to sea surges as Los Angeles is to earthquakes, common grazings good for little else but the invention of public games, where marine whirlwinds could blow out the turf and create ancestral bunkers—for example, Turnberry, Muirfield, Dornoch, Crail, Carnoustie, Prestwick, Royal Troon."
"Linksland and Bottle" by John McPhee, in The New Yorker, September 6, 2010, p 50
September 8, 2010