backweight en · NOUN
Etymology
From back + weight.
Meanings
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A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.
Fashioned with shafts of aged hickory, ash or lemonwood, these early clubs have heads with an insert of ram’s horn or a lead backweight.
2007 September 7, Wendy Moonan, “Olde Cleeks, Spoons and Brassies (for Birdies and Bogeys)”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| backweights | Number=Plur | lexicographic |