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bulger

American  
[buhl-jer] / ˈbʌl dʒər /

noun

Golf.
  1. a wood having a convex face, now rarely used.


Etymology

Origin of bulger

First recorded in 1825–35; bulge + -er 1

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"I fear he doesn't know a bulger from a baffy," he added sorrowfully.

From The Half-Back by Ralph Henry Barbour

Instead of being concave, after much battering, the face of the bulger became merely flat.

From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson

It was he who invented the "bulger," that club with its convex face, off which the ball flew with a straightness that was a revelation.

From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson

In this portrait the "bulger" golf club—which Mr. Lamb, I believe, invented, to the delight of the golfing world—is introduced.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Harry Furniss

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