brassey









brassey


brassey [bras-ee, brah-see] Examples noun, plural brass·eys. Golf.

  1. brassie.

brassie or brass·y, brass·ey [bras-ee, brah-see] noun Golf.

  1. a club with a wooden head, the brass-plated face of which has more slope than a driver but less than a spoon, for hitting long, low drives on the fairway.

Origin of brassie First recorded in 1885–90; brass + -ie Also called number two wood. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for brassey Historical Examples of brassey

  • Sometimes I try it with a brassey, but on the whole I think the cleek is best.

    Tom and Some Other Girls

    Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

  • Thanks to the lamp, Brassey steered his way carefully and with a grim smile.

    My Doggie and I

    R.M. Ballantyne

  • Brassey heard it, emerged from the shade of his pillar, and was soon beside his comrade.

    My Doggie and I

    R.M. Ballantyne

  • Dangerfield took his brassey and went straightway into the brook.

    Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

    Wyndham Martyn

  • It was the original of the “brassey,” for the idea of a rut suggested the idea of a road.

    Fifty Years of Golf

    Horace G. Hutchinson

  • British Dictionary definitions for brassey brassie brassy noun plural brassies

    1. golf a former name for a club, a No. 2 wood, originally having a brass-plated sole and with a shallower face than a driver to give more loft

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