Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An iron-headed golf club with the face slanted at a greater angle than any other iron except a wedge; a nine iron.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of club used in the game of golf, having a dumpy cup-shaped iron head. It is used to jerk the ball out of sand, ruts, rough ground, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun golf (
dated ) A metal headedgolf club with a large highly lofted head. Replaced by asand iron orwedge in a modern set of clubs
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an iron with considerable loft
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So the Minister realized he was bunkered and had to fall back on his niblick -- in other words confess his error to the House.
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For instance, the niblick is a short club for taking the ball out of difficult positions ( "lies") as when the latter gets into long grass, sand or some other awkward kind of obstruction.
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Look at how the golf club has been taken out of the hands of the greatest athlete who ever held a niblick.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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The various rules governing who can and can't hoist their mashie niblick around the famous Old Course – let alone who can sip a reviving Gin and It in the clubhouse – are rather too byzantine for speedy summary and perhaps in any case beyond the understanding of fluffy-headed ladies.
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Look at how the golf club has been taken out of the hands of the greatest athlete who ever held a niblick.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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Look at how the golf club has been taken out of the hands of the greatest athlete who ever held a niblick.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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She eventually snaps and lets him have it in the head with her niblick.
What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike? Eric Felten 2011
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Look at how the golf club has been taken out of the hands of the greatest athlete who ever held a niblick.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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"If the thing was to be done at all," observes the Oldest Member, approvingly, "it was unquestionably a niblick shot."
What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike? Eric Felten 2011
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Look at how the golf club has been taken out of the hands of the greatest athlete who ever held a niblick.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: I'm With Arnold <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
knitandpurl commented on the word niblick
"Joan Benbow, driving ambitiously, had watched her ball land, leap forward in a series of diminishing arcs, and come to rest in Hibbett's Hole. (Hibbett was a Victorian golfer, one of John Company's colonels, who died in harness, his enlarged spleen bursting almost simultaneously with a good niblick in the bunker now called after him.)"
Poet's Pub by Eric Linklater, p 94 of the Orkney Edition hardcover
November 24, 2011