niblick
Example Sentences
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Old Morris passed on his mashie niblick — an early term for a seven iron — to his equally talented son, Young Tom Morris, who won the British Open four times from 1868 to 1872.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025
It was also an impressive feat, given that Terry and his teammates were hitting rubberlike gutta percha balls with handmade wooden-shafted clubs that, instead of numbers, bore names like brassie, niblick, spoon and cleek.
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2021
Besides, the hardy defenders of the Alamo discovered that a mashie niblick came in rather handy for close infighting and drawing lines in the dirt.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 29, 2016
Yaya Touré turned a foot into a niblick that dinked the ball up and into David Silva's path.
From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2013
The drive must carry a steep hill, the right slope of which pitches away to a deep, narrow ravine—a ravine scarred and marred by thousands of niblick shots, but otherwise as disgusted Nature left it.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
