brassey
Americannoun
plural
brasseysExample Sentences
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And the way I tried was by adding, as soon as I went South, inches—to the number of six—to my wooden clubs, both driver and brassey.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
It indicates an importance belonging to a brassey which it certainly would not have now, when a full second shot with a wooden club is hardly ever wanted.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
Jeremy took up his brassey and addressed an imaginary ball.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
And another conspicuous absentee from the list is the brassey.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
With a good drive that second shot, played with a cleek perhaps, or the brassey may be needed, has to be uncommonly well judged and true.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry
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