Crossword clues for niblick
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Niblick \Nib"lick\, n. A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
golf club with a heavy head, of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. (context golf dated English) A metal-headed (l/en: golf club) with a large highly lofted head. Replaced by a (l/en: sand iron) or (l/en: wedge) in a modern set of clubs. vb. (context golf ambitransitive English) To strike, or take a shot, with a niblick.
WordNet
n. an iron with considerable loft [syn: nine iron]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "niblick".
Leaving Lantz practicing niblick shots toward the woods that fringed the eighteenth hole, while Propper sat sagging in a veranda chair, Larry caught the bus and started the rough trip into Asheville.
Filled with these philanthropic feelings, I turned once more to talk with the professor of niblicks and approach shots and holes done in three without a brassy.
The sounds of the talk flowed meaninglessly over his head and he was free to think of his golf game, and snakes, and nine irons, and boa constrictors, and mashies, and timber rattlers, and niblicks, and pythons big enough to swallow a goat whole.
Uncle Tom, our oldest inhabitant, who hasn't had a brief in Court since anyone can remember, was working hard at improving his putting skills with an old mashie niblick and a clutch of golf balls, the hole being represented by the waste-paper basket laid on its side.
His spirits, so low but a few moments back, soared like a good niblick shot out of the bunker of Gloom.