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putt
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun putt has 1 sense
- putt(n = noun.act) putting - hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter; "his putting let him down today; he didn't sink a single putt over three feet" is a kind of golf shot, golf stroke, swing
Derived forms verb putt1, verb putt2
Verb putt has 2 senses
- putt(v = verb.contact) Array - strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter; "he putted the ball several feet past the hole" is one way to hit
- putt(v = verb.contact) Array - hit a putt; "he lost because he putted so poorly" is one way to play
Derived forms noun putt1, noun putter2, noun putter1, noun putting1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived forms noun putt1, noun putter2, noun putter1, noun putting1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
putt, v. i.
To make a putt. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
putt, v. & n. (also put)
--v.tr. (putted, putting) strike (a golf ball) gently to get it into or nearer to a hole on a putting-green.
--n. a putting stroke.
--v.tr. (putted, putting) strike (a golf ball) gently to get it into or nearer to a hole on a putting-green.
--n. a putting stroke.
Idiom
putting-green (in golf) the smooth area of grass round a hole.
Etymology
differentiated f. PUT(1)
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