brassey
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I see that Mr. Everard, speaking of this incident in the Badminton Book, described it as "the very bad luck to break his favourite brassey."
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
You've a good brassey lie behind the tee there.
From Olympian Nights by Bangs, John Kendrick
Sometimes I try it with a brassey, but on the whole I think the cleek is best.
From Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story by Tarrant, Percy
Again I swung my red-flagged brassey in front of the angry creature’s face and what I had hoped for followed.
From Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder by Bangs, John Kendrick
Then, two holes from home, Johnny broke his brassey.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
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