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Word Meanings - PUTT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.

Related words: (words related to PUTT)

  • STROKER
    One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • GREENLET
    l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
  • GREENSAND
    A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
  • GREENFISH
    See POLLOCK
  • GREENOCKITE
    Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
  • GREENHOUSE
    A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
  • GREENWEED
    See GREENBROOM
  • PUTTYROOT
    An American orchidaceous plant which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called
  • GREENHORN
    A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
  • GREEN-STALL
    A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
  • PUTTER-ON
    An instigator. Shak.
  • GREENISH
    Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
  • GREENBACKER
    One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
  • GREENGAGE
    A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
  • GREENROOM
    The retiring room of actors and actresses in a theater.
  • PUTT
    A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.
  • GREEN-BROOM
    A plant of the genus Genista ; dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.
  • PUTTING GREEN
    The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.
  • GREENHEAD
    The mallard. The striped bass. See Bass.
  • AYEGREEN
    The houseleek . Halliwell.
  • BRUNSWICK GREEN
    An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
  • SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
    Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
  • CRAWL STROKE
    A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
  • SHAGREEN
    To chagrin.
  • BY-STROKE
    An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
  • SCHEELE'S GREEN
    See GREEN

 

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