brassey
Americannoun
plural
brasseysExample Sentences
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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
And another conspicuous absentee from the list is the brassey.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.
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
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.
Steve glanced at the beast over his shoulder, and then took a brassey from his bag.
From The Maker of Opportunities by Gibbs, George
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