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Mashy

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Mashy
    A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.
  2. Mashy
    Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. mashy
    Produced by crushing or bruising; of the nature of a mash: as, the mashy juice of apples or grapes.
  2. (n) mashy
    In golf, a club with an iron head and a more or less lofted face.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Mashy
    produced by mashing; of the nature of a mash
  2. (n) Mashy
    a kind of golf-club.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Etym. uncert

Usage in the news

Nine-hole play tees up at 4 pm each Tuesday, with the $40 greens fee covering rental of slightly modified niblicks, mashies and brassies. recommend.com

Usage in literature

I took the mashie, because I distrusted my ability to carry the bunker with another telegraph pole. "Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Dec. 12, 1917" by Various

Booverman took his mashy for the short running-up stroke to the pin, which seemed so near. "Murder in Any Degree" by Owen Johnson

A "Mashy" is a smaller "iron. "Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892" by Various

The driver and hockey stick were hopeless for mashie shots, but Wilkins reported a practicable C.T. "Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 4, 1920" by Various

Plenty of roofs in sight, from five to ten stories lower than the Corrugated buildin', but no mashie maniac in evidence. "Torchy As A Pa" by Sewell Ford

The Mashie, a tributary of the Spey, in the parish of Laggan, runs close by Strathmashie house. "The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875" by Various

Then his over-worked mashie went back on him. "Penguin Persons & Peppermints" by Walter Prichard Eaton

Mashie approach (pitch and run). "The Complete Golfer [1905]" by Harry Vardon

Lionel, after some consideration, took the mashie in preference to the iron. "The Gay Adventure" by Richard Bird

You would always be hammering your own ball a hundred yards away in a bunker, while I was waiting for my mashie. ""Pip"" by Ian Hay