We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Play-club, n. Also: plae. Appar., a wooden golf club, spec. a ‘driver’, as in the later dial. —1685 Soc. Ant. LVIII. 357.
3 iron clubs, 17 plae clubs 1691 Dickinson Two Students at St. Andrews xxxix.
Ane sett of golfe-clubs consisting of three, viz. an play club, ane scraper and ane tin fac'd club

31796

dost