mashie
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of mashie
First recorded in 1880–85; perhaps from French massue “club,” from unattested Vulgar Latin matteūca, derivative of unattested matte(a) “mallet, club”; see mace 1
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Example Sentences
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Old Morris passed on his mashie niblick — an early term for a seven iron — to his equally talented son, Young Tom Morris, who won the British Open four times from 1868 to 1872.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025
But forget about carrying the golf clubs unless your collection is limited to a single niblick or mashie.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2016
In the lovely brick and half-timbered clubhouse-cum-museum, where it is 1926 still, the mashie hangs in the upstairs clubroom beneath an enormous portrait of Jones.
From Golf Digest • Jul. 16, 2012
And then there are the nicknames for this inner society’s tools: big dog, flat stick, belly putter, cavity back, hosel, kickpoint, camber, off-set, niblick, mashie, brassie, bounce, flange.
From New York Times • May 31, 2010
Lionel, after some consideration, took the mashie in preference to the iron.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard
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