Meaning & use

niblick

noun·Advanced

An old-fashioned name for a golf club with a heavily lofted head, roughly equivalent to a modern nine iron.

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The old golf set in the attic still had a rusty niblick among its clubs.

Golfers once used a niblick to lift the ball high out of sand or rough.

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The term "niblick" fell out of common use once golf clubs began to be numbered instead of individually named.

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