Definition of Hosel

1. Noun. The portion of the head of a golf club to which the shaft of the club attaches. ¹

2. Noun. (slang) A semester, in the context of a course of study which should be enjoyable as opposed to required work. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hosel

1. a part of a golf club [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hosel

hosannas
hosaphone
hosaphones
hose
hose barb
hose clamp
hose clamps
hose down
hosebags
hosebeast
hosebeasts
hosed
hosehead
hoseheads
hosel (current term)
hoseless
hoselike
hosels
hosemonkey
hosen
hosepipe
hosepipes
hoser
hosers
hoses
hosey
hoseyed

Literary usage of Hosel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"but is contrary to those of hosel.19 The latter asserts that the sensory ... It is well knowm that hosel found the contralateral sensory nucleus of the ..."

2. The Minor Poems of the Vernon Ms. ...: (with a Few from the Digby Mss. 2 and by Carl Horstmann, Frederick James Furnivall (1892)
"... To hosel him as hit fel to be ... 180 He dude him hosel as ofur wore, And was a good mou for euer-more. ..."

3. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"The results of clinical observation do not all agree. Those of hosel and Flechsig are antagonistic to those of Mahaim. hosel supports ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1895)
"There were practically two views represented: Flechsig and hosel maintain that fibres which come from cells of the nuclei of Goll and Burdach and form the ..."

5. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"This is a very complete refutation of the direct cortical termination as maintained by Flechsig and hosel and their followers, and a complete corroboration ..."

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