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Definition of Niblick
1. Noun. An iron with considerable loft.
Definition of Niblick
1. n. A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.
Definition of Niblick
1. Noun. (golf) (dated) A metal headed golf club with a large highly lofted head. Replaced by a sand iron or wedge in a modern set of clubs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Niblick
1. a golf club [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Niblick
Literary usage of Niblick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon (1908)
"... play back—The qualities of the niblick—Stance and swing—How much sand to
take—The time to press—No follow-through in a bunker—Desperate cases—The brassy ..."
2. Travers' Golf Book by Jerome Dunstan Travers (1913)
"CHAPTER XV WHEN AND HOW TO PLAY THE MASHIE niblick THE average player never ...
The mashie niblick, having a great Getting deal of weight in the heel and a ..."
3. Intimate Golf Talks by John Duncan Dunn, Elon Jessup (1920)
"... mashie, niblick, putter dous amount of ignorance as to just how he would go
about it to select a suitable ..."
4. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches: A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1890)
"By' A. niblick.' JOU say Beattie's horse only took two minutes to come home in
the last four-mile heat from the bend into the straight. Why only? ..."
5. Golf by Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Henry James Moncreiff Moncreiff (1892)
"Some few golfers, when they wished to pitch the ball unusually dead, were in the
habit of using the niblick. But since the small surface of the blade of the ..."
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