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Definition of Niblicks
1. niblick [n] - See also: niblick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Niblicks
Literary usage of Niblicks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"THE AMALGAMATED niblicks. [*' The ' Nibe ' are an association of the beet- known
... THE Society of Amalgamated niblicks has the honour to present its ..."
2. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1890)
"The following is a complete list of golf clubs: Wood Clubs—Drivers, Long Spoons,
Mid Spoons, Short Spoons, Baffy, Brassie niblicks, Bulger Drivers, ..."
3. Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin (1916)
"... just as there are to-day between golfers about niblicks and putters, and
between surgeons as to the technique of the extraction of an appendix. ..."
4. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... cheering the several humorous allusions to " caddies" and " niblicks," "
drivers" and " putters," with which the opera was enlivened. ..."
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