Definitions
hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter
Word origin
Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”). Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a pit”). The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid. In Dutch, the word is instanced in a description of golf in an early seventeenth-century edition of Pieter van Afferden's Tyrocinium linguae latinae. All derive from Proto-Germanic *putōną.
Used in a sentence
“There were the golfers. Was it possible that they were going on with their game? Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole.”
“We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Golf green stroke”4 letters
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