brassey
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Then, two holes from home, Johnny broke his brassey.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
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.
If he had a big match to play he always bought a new brassey for it.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
The unhappy man sent his second, as nice and clean a brassey shot as he had made all day, into its very jaws.
From Love Among the Chickens by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
Tying my red silk handkerchief to the end of my brassey I stepped in front of the great creature and addressing an imaginary ball before him made the usual swing back and through stroke.
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
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