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Old-fashioned five iron
Answer for the clue "Old-fashioned five iron ", 6 letters:
mashie
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Word definitions for mashie in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"five iron," 1881, from Scottish, probably from French massue "club," from Vulgar Latin *mattiuca , from Latin mateola "a tool for digging" (see mace (n.1)). Related: Mashie-niblick (1903).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context golf dated English) A metal headed golf club with a moderate loft. The equivalent of a five iron in a modern set of clubs
Usage examples of mashie.
Culla followed, the mashies clacking together slowly, powerfully with the rhythm of his footsteps.
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.
Knowing their purpose somehow made a mental image of the Pring's mashies less disgusting.
There was a faint buzzing, as if Culla's mashies were chattering softly behind the thick prehensile lips.
The Pring's mashies were now fully exposed, waving at the ends of the tentacular lips.
Knowing their purpose somehow made a mental image of the Pring’s mashies less disgusting.
There was a faint buzzing, as if Culla’s mashies were chattering softly behind the thick prehensile lips.
The Pring’s mashies were now fully exposed, waving at the ends of the tentacular “lips.
The Pring's mashies were now fully exposed, waving at the ends of the tentacular "lips.