brassey

American  

[bras-ee, brah-see] / ˈbræs i, ˈbrɑ si /

noun

Golf.

plural

brasseys

1. brassie.

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Example Sentences

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

Mister Schwabstein kontrived to redooce 'is brassey to fragmints at the second 'ole; and after that he took out 'is niblick, and nuthing wouldn't perswade 'im to put it back.

From Mr. Punch's Golf Stories by Various

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)

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