Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A five iron used in golf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mashy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun golf (
dated ) A metal headedgolf club with a moderate loft. The equivalent of a five iron in a modern set of clubs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun middle-distance iron
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is properly classified as a mashie shot, but there are golfers who do it with an iron.
The Complete Golfer Harry Vardon 1903
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Open is about history and using cool words such as mashie and niblick.
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However, to the hesitating golfer, or to him whose mashie play so far has been somewhat disappointing, I give with confidence the advice to use a mashie which is very fairly lofted and which is deep in the blade.
The Complete Golfer Harry Vardon 1903
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The history is this: In 1921, some members of the City Club, a private club in the District, wanted a place to swing their mashie niblicks.
Old Beaver Dam golf course couldn't hold back development John Kelly 2010
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Having never read Pride and Prejudice I probably should attempt the original before the mashie.
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The history is this: In 1921, some members of the City Club, a private club in the District, wanted a place to swing their mashie niblicks.
Old Beaver Dam golf course couldn't hold back development John Kelly 2010
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The various rules governing who can and can't hoist their mashie niblick around the famous Old Course – let alone who can sip a reviving Gin and It in the clubhouse – are rather too byzantine for speedy summary and perhaps in any case beyond the understanding of fluffy-headed ladies.
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In it, golf turns up as a gag having to do with such inexplicable jargon as "mashie" and "cleek."
What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike? Eric Felten 2011
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The history is this: In 1921, some members of the City Club, a private club in the District, wanted a place to swing their mashie niblicks.
Old Beaver Dam golf course couldn't hold back development John Kelly 2010
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Now that we've all been edified by these exhaustively researched conclusions what is, as Tiger Woods might have said regarding his trusty mashie, the upshot?
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