Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lofting-iron.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Golf) An iron club with a sloped face, used in lofting the ball; -- called also
lofting iron .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun golf An obsolete
golf club , thepredecessor of theniblick .
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Examples
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The cleek and lofter are iron-headed clubs, and are used to drive the ball far and low.
Healthful Sports for Boys Alfred Rochefort
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Some one belonging to his own humble race had, then, preceded him in his struggling flight towards the lofter regions of Intelligence and Desire.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me.
The Celebrity, Volume 02 Winston Churchill 1909
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Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me.
The Celebrity, Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Tom had started work on the framework and modeler/lofter modules in 1988 and by summer of
CGArena - Get Attention in the Computer Graphics Community 2010
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He has the lac of wis-dom under every dent in his lofter while the other follow’s onni vesy milky indeedmymy.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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$! lofter som satta hôga och. rackra fàrgor pâ ylle och aOke.
Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ... 1797
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»ie: e, in which all the lofter Graces are interefted.
The works of Anacreon and Sappho, with pieces from ancient authors; and occasional essays; and ... 1768
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