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Brownlee told him that the boys who had that work were called putters; they were occupied in taking empty tubs to the men who hewed the coal, and in bringing away the full tubs, and that they earned good wages: they had a shilling a score for the tubs they removed.

Charlie Scott or, There's Time Enough Unknown

"These extra clubs are called putters, and the men who carry them cads, or caddies," Ernest remarked to Ellis.

Ernest Bracebridge School Days William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

They are no longer in touch with the communications net, or the vast information resources they are used to, and they have to shift from motorized "putters" to wagons.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

For legs it had two of those golf-clubs called "putters," a nd one of its arms was a tennis-racket and the other a base-ball club.

John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

The "putters," "screeners," and others, to the number of 227, are occupied in pushing the coal along the tramways from the hewer to the shaft; in raising it to the surface; screening it, and removing the stones, and, finally, loading it into the railway waggon or ship's hold.

The Coal Question~ Of the Cost of Coal Mining William Stanley Jevons 1865

There had never been more than two high school 70-foot shot putters in one season.

Jelmini, Finley head 2009 All-USA track and field team 2009

Cink led the PGA Tour in putting average in 2004 and was one of the best putters in the world for a while with the long putter.

News and notes on the PGA Tour's top 20 golfers 2010

Getty Images Phil Mickelson Lefty Doesn't Object to a Belly Putter Winners of the last three PGA Tour events have wielded nontraditional putters, restarting a debate about whether golf's governing bodies should ban them.

Lefty Doesn't Object to a Belly Putter 2011

Soobum Im/Zuma Press Adam Scott At this week's PGA Tour event at Harbour Town, there have been more players than usual tinkering with belly putters—a trend that appears to have been fueled by the recent success of guys like Adam Scott, who played very well with the extra long putter at the Masters.

The Belly Putter Is Gaining Popularity 2011

But it also favours great putters and few putt better than he does.

Graeme McDowell: 'I don't want to win one major and then disappear' 2011