Crossword clues for putter
putter
- Miniature golf club
- Idle, with "around"
- Green piece
- It helps when you get down to the short strokes
- Golfer's No. 6 club
- Green iron
- Golf club parking, say
- Make publicly known at opening of parish club
- Club page complete
- Speak, under pressure, in golf club
- Piano, say, for club
- Head of police state is part of the club set
- Golf club
- Golf club choice
- Green need
- Club on the green
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Putter \Put"ter\, n.
One who puts or plates.
Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. [Prov. Eng.]
Putter \Putt"er\, n. (Golf)
A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a metal head, used in putting.
One who putts.
Putter \Put"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Puttering.] [See Potter.] To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around in the garden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"keep busy in a rather useless way," 1841, originally among farmers, alteration of potter (v.). Related: Puttered; puttering.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (label en intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks. Etymology 2
n. 1 one#pronoun who puts or places. 2 One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine. Etymology 3
n. 1 (context golf English) A golf club specifically intended for a putt. 2 (context golf English) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
WordNet
n. a golfer who is putting
the iron normally used on the putting green [syn: putting iron]
v. work lightly; "The old lady is pottering around in the garden" [syn: potter]
do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house" [syn: mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around]
move around aimlessly [syn: potter, potter around, putter around]
Wikipedia
A putter is a club used in the sport of golf to make relatively short and low-speed strokes with the intention of rolling the ball into the hole from a short distance away. It is differentiated from the other clubs (typically irons and woods) by a clubhead with a very flat, low-profile, low-loft striking face, and by other features which are only allowed on putters, such as bent shafts, non-circular grips, and positional guides.
Putters are generally used from very close distances to the cup, generally on the putting green, though certain courses have fringes and roughs near the green which are also suitable for putting. While no club in a player's bag is absolutely indispensable nor required to be carried by strict rules, the putter comes closest. It is a highly specialized tool for a specific job, and virtually no golfer is without one.
Putter may refer to:
- Putter, a club used in the sport of golf whose design differs from that of irons and woods
- Putter (mining), a miner who pushes ore trucks around the mine
- Pütter See, a lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
- People with the name:
- Eddy Putter (born 1982), Dutch football player
- Putter Smith (born 1941), American jazz bassist
Usage examples of "putter".
Corey, grabbing the Bandersnatch and stuffing the struggling Silly Putter back into his knapsack.
When the boat shoved off and puttered up the channel towards the labour camp on the nearest island, Sebastian looked back at Blucher with the same dumb stare as the men who squatted beside him on the floorboards of the whaler.
In the meantime Carthoris and Xodar with tools in hand were puttering with the great rent in the bow in a hopeless endeavour to stem the tide of escaping rays.
He heard the Coronal once again puttering among the geomantic devices on his desk even before he stepped through the doorway.
Greco began to putter with gleamy, glassy gadgets on one of the tables and I watched him with, I admit, a certain amount of suspicion.
El Greco began to putter with gleamy, glassy gadgets on one of the tables and I watched him with, I admit, a certain amount of suspicion.
The soldier did not wait for Luis to read the note but gunned his throttle and puttered off, spraying the Tiger.
I started to get itchy, so I went inside and puttered around the living room, thumbing through magazines, checking out the bookshelves for something to read.
The Talarian boy did not glance at her as he turned toward the barn, but Kathryn heard a low, puttering noise coming from the spider that sounded like purring!
It was John Scripture, and he was assisted, from time to time, by an aged and lunatic father who, in his lucid intervals, would be let out from his captivity under the eaves of the lodge to putter amid the lewd topiarian extravagance of the hedges.
Then he reluctantly puttered into the muniments room, where the superefficient librarian had already got out the Stonehouse dossiers for him and put them on a table by the open doors, and sat down to read.
Behind Bellis was the puttering of a motor as Angevine trundled toward them.
Still, as he puttered around his new kitchen, his mind and heart kept straying to the green-eyed, gun-totting Cali Roland.
A caretaker was puttering beside the open door of a stucco, Hollywoodish laboratory.
The soldier did not wait for Luis to read the note but gunned his throttle and puttered off, spraying the Tiger.