Crossword clues for fairway
fairway
- The usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or costal waters
- A tract of ground free of obstacles to movement
- The area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short
- Doral sight
- Place for a drive
- Golfer's target, reasonable distance
- Golf course area between tee and green
- Area on a golf course
- Blonde to approach best place for swingers?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fairway \Fair"way`\, n.
The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.
--Totten.(golf) That part of a golf course between the tee and the green which is of closely mowed grass, as contrasted to the rough.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
WordNet
n. the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short
the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or costal waters
a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1842
Land area (2000): 1.139292 sq. miles (2.950753 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.139292 sq. miles (2.950753 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22700
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.023988 N, 94.629213 W
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Fairway
Wikipedia
Fairway may refer to:
- Fairway (golf), part of a golf course
- Fairway (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
- Fairway, Gauteng, South Africa
- Fairway, Kansas, United States
- Fairway, Lexington, neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky, United States
- Fairway Market, an American grocery chain based mostly in New York City
- Fairway Markets, a grocery chain on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada
- Fairway Press, a Christian publishing company
- Fairway, a name of the Austin FX4 taxicab.
Fairway (1925–1946) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Fairway was the best horse of his generation in Britain at two, three and four years old, winning the St Leger Stakes, the Champion Stakes (twice) and the Eclipse Stakes. He retired as a five-year-old in 1930 and went on to become a successful and influential sire.
Usage examples of "fairway".
Stone drove his usual slice into the next fairway, and Dino hooked his into yet another fairway.
For once Blitzkrieg appeared to have figured out what it took to keep his shots in the center of the fairway.
Again, we would be staggering through the tide-rips and overfalls that infest the open fairway of the Weser on our passage between the Fork and the Pike.
Yet through the bellowing of mess numbers and the banging of mess kids, Plaice and Jemmy Ducks stuck doggedly to their tasks in the galley, standing there in the midst of the tide, blocking the fairway fore and aft.
I saw reflected in his eyes, not them, no, nor the bright green fairway fringed in dark pine, nor the city of Baguio misty and lost in the distance, none of these, but the long delicate snout of that mythic Lincoln.
Erratic puffs from the high land behind made her progress timorous at first, but soon the fairway was reached and a true breeze from Flensburg and the west took her in its friendly grip.
You drive over one of the tallest and deepest bunkers in the United Kingdom and then have a long second shot across an undulating hilly fairway to a plateau green guarded by a final slope which makes it easier to take three putts than two.
I recognized the curving slope of the fairway and the steep dropoff to the ocean.
The man seemed not to notice and drove the golf bails, one after another, far out on the green fairway.
The triple lot was on a high bluff over the Atlantic Beach it would be necessary to construct a stairway to the beach, but what the hell, that was better than having the Atlantic Ocean come crashing through your living room in a once-in-a-century hurricaneand when the proposed golf course was built, would have a view of the fairways, far enough away from them to prevent golf balls from crashing into the houses windows.
The triple lot was on a high bluff over the Atlantic Beach- it would be necessary to construct a stairway to the beach, but what the hell, that was better than having the Atlantic Ocean come crashing through your living room in a once-in-a-century hurricane-and when the proposed golf course was built, would have a view of the fairways, far enough away from them to prevent golf balls from crash-ing into the house's windows.
Even using silk flags and the lushest Bermuda grass, it hardly seems possible to spend so much to spruce up a few fairways.
O'Hara drives into the quarry to the left of the sixteenth fairway, double-bogeys the hole, and concedes it to Hume, who is on the green in two shots.
I walk up to the fourth fairway while checking the sheet for the draw in this, the first round of the Scottish Amateur.
If the greens were at opposite ends of the same fairway and foursomes had to play against each other, defending their own green while assaulting the opponents' and risking getting hit with a ball or a club at close quarters, well, then you'd have a game.