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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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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
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