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▪ I. tee, n.1|tiː|
[The origin of senses 2 and 3 is obscure: possibly they do not belong here.]
I.
1. a. The name of the letter T; also applied to objects having the form of this (T or ⊦). See also T (the letter) 2.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iv. v. (1611) 199 He beareth Argent, a cheveron betweene three Text Tees, sable. 1877Knight Dict. Mech., Tee, a T-shaped pipe-coupling. 1882Worc. Exhib. Catal. iii. 5 Connections, elbows, tees, syphons. 1891Times 28 Sept. 3/6 The demand for angles and tees is quiet, but bridge and roofing makers are taking fair lots.
b. Phr. to a tee: see T 1. c.
II.
2. Sc. (See quot. 1882.)
1494–5Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 228 To mak knoppis and fassis to the harnysing of briddillis and teis, xxxij pirnis of gold. 1505Ibid. III. 160 For ane courpale and tee..xs. 1675Cunningham Diary 27 July (1887) 56 Sent to Glasgow for a new Curpell and Tee. 1776R. Ferguson in Whitelaw Bk. Scot. Song (1875) 100 With..hat, and a feather, And housing at curpen and tee. 1882Jamieson's Dict., Tee. Pl. tees, teis, iron holdfasts, in shape like the letter T, suspended from a horse's collar for attachment to the shafts of a vehicle, or for connecting the bit and bridle; also, the ropes by which a sailyard is suspended.
3. Mining. (See quot. 1851.)
1653E. Manlove Lead Mines 266 Fell, Bous, and Knock⁓barke, Forstid-oar, and Tees. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. S ij, After crossing of Pees, Tees, Braks, Jumbles, or what other disorder may happen that the Vein cannot be easily made out. 1851Tapping Gloss. Lead-mining Terms, Tee, or Tye, is where a cross vein approaches another vein at nearly right angles, whose side it joins without intersecting or breaking through it.
III. 4. attrib. Shaped like a T, having a cross-piece at the top or end, as tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-joint, tee-piece, tee section, tee slot, tee-square; also in other combs., as tee-headed, tee-shaped adjs. See also T (the letter) 3.
1819T. S. Peckston Gas-Lighting 300 Wrought-iron tee-pieces for branching off from the principal service-pipe in two directions. 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 344 Tee-squares are rulers made in the form of the letter T. 1877Knight Dict. Mech., Tee-iron, a rod with a cross-bar at the end, for withdrawing the lower valve-box of a pump. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. p. liii/2 Fire and Thief-resisting Safes..solid tee frame, and solid flange lock case. 1887D. A. Low Machine Draw. (1892) 18 At (c) is shown a tee-headed bolt. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 368 Tee joint, a welded joint employed for uniting pieces of bar iron standing at right angles with each other. Ibid., Tee shots, slots or grooves cast in the tables of planing, shaping, slotting, and drilling machines for carrying the heads of tee-headed bolts. 1904Daily Chron. 4 May 3/2 Tee-shaped and substantially built, the new pier..has a frontage of 650 ft. 1930Engineering 9 May 591/1 (title) Simplified formulae for the design of reinforced concrete tee beams. 1963Jones & Schubert Engin. Encycl. 1278 Tee section, the standard structural section known as a tee has a T shape. 1964S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes iii. 93 The down-hand fillet or tee joint is shown in Fig. 14 (a). Ibid. v. 116 A circular tee-slot machined in the top face of the centre-slide provides movement for the heads of the clamping bolts. 1965R. Hammond Dict. Civil Engin. 228 Tee-beam, a rolled steel section..in the shape of the letter T, the flat top being the table.
Add:[I.] [1.] c. N. Amer. Abbrev. of T-shirt n.
1976New Yorker 24 May 79/2 (Advt.), French cotton Tee. 1978N. Y. Times 29 Mar. a4/1 (Advt.), Classics from the master..Ferragamo! His springtime tee. Scooped a bit lower and embroidered with the famous Ferragamo insignia, of course! In finely knitted navy, red, black or blue cotton. 1984Sears Catal. 1985 Spring/Summer 51 Relaxed fabrics, like faded denims or cotton blend tees.
▪ II. tee, n.2 Golf. Orig. Sc.|tiː|
[app. a curtailed form of teaz, used in 17th c., the origin of which is not ascertained. For the formation cf. pease, pea.]
The starting-place (formerly a little heap of earth or sand) from which the ball is driven in commencing to play each hole: now usu. a wooden or plastic peg with a concave top; also called tee-peg or peg-tee.
1673Wedderburn's Vocab. 37, 38 (Jam.) Baculus, Pila clavaria, a goulfe-ball. Statumen, the Teaz. 1721Ramsay Ode to Ph— ii, Driving their baws frae whins or tee. 1875W. A. Smith Lewsiana 147 Each [shell] is seated on a sandy ‘tee’, formed by the wind sweeping away the sand around it. 1879Encycl. Brit. X. 765/1 In starting from the hole, the ball may be teed (i.e. placed where the player chooses, with a little pinch of sand under it called a tee). 1905Daily News 7 Jan. 12 At two o'clock,..the golfing party were at the first tee. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 9 Oct. 11/6 Golf clubs..bags, balls, tees, [etc.]. 1926Amer. Speech I. 631/2 There are also tees of rubber, and recently wooden pegs on which balls may be teed have come into vogue. 1952L. T. Stanley Woman Golfer 53 Many players prefer to play iron shots to a short hole off a peg-tee. 1959D. Thomas Instructions to Young Golfers xix. 106 He takes a ball.., places it on a tee-peg..and..smites it a good fifty yards. 1962Times 3 Jan. 3/6 The only indication of a satisfactory hit is the speed with which the striker bends down to recover his tee. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 422/2 It is usual for the first shot at each hole to be played off a wooden or plastic tee-peg... The tee-peg was invented in 1920 by Lowel of New Jersey.
attrib.1862R. Chambers Rambling Remarks 14 The tee-shots are usually the furthest, long drivers being able to send a ball upwards of two hundred yards. 1901Daily Chron. 7 June 8/3 Vardon was beaten in the tee shots.
▪ III. tee, n.3 Curling, etc. Orig. Sc.|tiː|
[Origin uncertain: perh. orig. the same word as tee n.1, from the use of such a mark to define an exact spot.
(A suggested derivation from ON. tjá to show, mark, note, is untenable.)]
The mark, a cross made on the ice and surrounded by circles, at which the stones are aimed; applied also to the ‘jack’ at bowls, and the ‘hob’ at quoits.
1789D. Davidson Th. Seasons, Winter 167 Clim o' the Cleugh..A slow shot drew, wi' muckle care, Which settled on the tee. 1812Sporting Mag. XL. 51 A mark is made at each end [of the rink] called a tee, toesee, or witter. 1820Blackw. Mag. VI. 572 Each player endeavouring to possess himself of a birth near the Tee. 1885New Bk. Sports 100 (Curling) The players who open the game begin by playing short of the tee. 1888W. Black In Far Lochaber ii. I. 66 A trimly kept bowling-green, in which the club-members practise the gentle art of reaching the tee.
b. attrib. and Comb., as tee-shot; tee-drawn adj.
1850J. Struthers Winter Day ii. ix, Tee-drawn shots the smooth-lead fill, Or ports are wick'd with hair-breadth skill. 1853W. Watson Poems 64 (E.D.D.) [He] Sen's up a tee-shot to a hair.
▪ IV. ‖ tee, n.4|tiː|
Also htee.
[Burmese h'ti umbrella.]
A metallic decoration, in the shape of an umbrella, usually gilded and hung with bells, surmounting the topes and pagodas of Burma and adjacent countries.
1800M. Symes Embassy Ava v. 188 The whole [building] is crowned by a Tee, or umbrella, of open iron-work, from which rises a rod with a gilded pennant. The tee or umbrella is to be seen on every sacred building that is of a spiral form. 1858H. Yule Mission to Ava ii. 42 [The Gauda-palen Temple at Pagan] is cruciform in plan..crowned by a spire and htee. 1882Edin. Rev. Oct. 360 On the summit of the tope was a square construction known among archæologists as the ‘tee’.
▪ V. tee, n.5 orig N. Amer.
Brit. |tiː|, U.S. |ti|
Forms: 19– T, 19– tee
[Shortened ‹T-shirt n. (see forms at that entry).]
A T-shirt.
1948Mansfield (Ohio) News Jrnl. 23 June 10 (advt.) Wear these absorbent, washable tees for active sports! 1976New Yorker 24 May 79/2 (advt.) French cotton Tee. 1990Egg Aug. 42/2 Stacy has put together a cunning outfit..matching olive sweats with an oversize T. 2002Bliss June 43/2 In the evening, she loses the little tee and dresses up denims with a slinky, sparkly top.
▪ VI. † tee, v.1 Obs.
Forms: see below.
[OE. téon (contr. from téohan), pa. tense téah, tuᵹon, pa. pple. toᵹen, a Com. Teutonic str. vb., cogn. with OSax. tiohan, tôh, tugun, gitogan (MLG. tien, ten, MDu. tijen, tijghen, LG. teën, EFris. tîen, têjen, têen), OFris. tia (WFris. tjean, Saterl. tejen, NFris. tjin), OHG. ziohan, zôh, zugun, gizogan (Ger. ziehen, zog, gezogen), ON. pa. pple. toginn, Goth. tiuhan, táuh, tauhum, tauhans, to draw, lead; = L. dūc-ĕre to lead, draw. A primitive Aryan vb., still important in German, but lost in Eng. by 1500. Derivatives of the same root survive in taut, team, tie, tight, tough, tow, tug.]
A. Illustration of Forms.
1. pres. stem.
a. inf. 1 téon, 2–4 teon, 3–4 tuen, 3–5 teen, ten, teo, tee, te; 5 tegh.
971Blickl. Hom. 241 ᵹif eow swa liciᵹe..hine teon þurh þisse ceastre lanan. c1205Lay. 791 Ich wille teo [c 1275 go] to-foren. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1344 To bersabe he gunne teen. Ibid. 1953 To-warde egipte he gunne ten. c1290St. Eustace 165 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 214 To londe he moste te. c1300Harrow. Hell 234 Alle..þat mine buen shule to blisse wiþ me tuen. c1320Cast. Love 821 Þorw on of þeos bayles he mot teon. Ibid. 877 Þorw þe faste ȝat he con in teo. c1400Destr. Troy 2541 Let hym tegh to þe tempull. c1425Cast. Persev. 1564 in Macro Plays 123 Þedyr raþely wyl I tee. c1450Lovelich Grail xiii. 56 Owt of the castel of Come þat he wolde te.
b. pres. ind., imp. 1 teoh, teo, tio, 3–4 tee, te; 2 (subj.) tye; pl. 1 teon, 3–4 teen, ten. imp. 1 teoh, 3 tih.
c897[see B. 1 b]. c1000ælfric Gram. xxviii. (Z.) 176 Traho, ic teo,..pertraho, ic teo swyðe. c1000Ags. Gosp. John vi. 44 Buton se fæder..hyne teo [c 1160 Hatton G. hyne tye]. Ibid. Luke v. 4 Teoh hit on dypan. 1027–34Secular Laws Cnut c. 70 Ne teo se hlaford na mare on his æhta. c1205Lay. 17416 Vther, tih þe aȝan. c1220Bestiary 353 Ðe hertes..If he fer fecchen fode, and he ouer water ten. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 9 Thay teen vnto his temmple. Ibid. 1262 Er he to þe tempple tee. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 2018 Er þe sonne doun te.
c. pres. ind., 2nd pers. sing. 1 tiehst, tyhst, 3rd. pers. sing. 1 tiehþ, tyhþ, tihþ, 2 tið, 3 tiȝth, tihth, teð, teoð, 4 teȝt.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxxv. 241 He tiehð his heafod in to him. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 256 Læcedom se þæt yfel ut tihð of þam milte. Ibid. 262 Þonne þu..tyhst blod. c1175Lamb. Hom. 27 Hit hine tið to þan bittre deðe. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Iefned to þe deore [h]wuas geres he forðteoð. c1220Bestiary 64 Up he teð, Til ðat he ðe heuene seð. a1250Owl & Night. 1435 An sum sot man hit tyhþ [v.r. tihþ] þar to. c1315Shoreham iii. 236 As he teȝt atte font-stone.
2. pa. tense. 1 téah, 2 teah, 2–3 teh, teih, tæh, tah, 3–4 teȝ, teiȝ, tey, teye, teiȝe, 4 tyh, 5 teȝe, tegh. pl. 1 tuᵹon, 3 tuȝen, tuhen, tuwen, 5 tyen.
a900Cynewulf Judith 99 [Heo] ᵹenam ða þone hæðenan mannan fæste be feaxe sinum, teah hyne. c1175Lamb. Hom. 129 Þurh hwam ure drihtan teh to him al moncun. c1205Lay. 640 He tah hine aȝein. Ibid. 805 He him seolf teih [c 1275 eode] bi-foren. Ibid. 1641 Tæh [see B. 1 b]. Ibid. 21616 Touwarde þæ hulle [he] tæh. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1135 Wið hise two dowtres ut he teȝ. a1300Vox & Wolf 279 in Rel. Ant. II. 278 The frere mid al his maine tey So longe, that [etc.]. a1375Joseph Arim. 57 Ioseph teiȝ to non hous bote euene to þe temple. 1390Gower Conf. II. 318 Unto his contre hom he tyh. c1400Destr. Troy 12907 He light into hauyn,..Tegh vnto Tuskan, & turnyt to londe.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke v. 11 And hiᵹ tuᵹon heora scypu to lande. c1205Lay. 1834 Heo tuȝen [c 1275 drowen] alle to gadere. Ibid. 2619 Him tuwen hired men to. a1225St. Marher. 22 Ant tuhen alle to hire bodi. c1400Sege Jerus. 843 His burnes Tyen to her tentis myd tene þat þey hadde.
3. pa. pple. 1 ᵹe)toᵹen, 3 i-toȝen, i-tohen, i-towen, -un, toȝen, 4–5 towen.
971Blickl. Hom. 241 Se eadiᵹa Andreas wæs toᵹen. c1205Lay. 10099 Luces wes wel itoȝen. a1225Ancr. R. 108 Heo is a grucchild, & ful itowen [v.r. itohen]. Ibid. 204 Þe nome one muhte hurten alle wel itowune earen. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3647 Ðis folc is after softe toȝen. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1093 For ȝe haf trauayled, towen fro ferre.
B. Signification.
1. trans. To draw, pull, drag, tug.
a900tr. Bæda's Hist. v. xiii. [xii.] (1890) 428 Tuᵹon heo ða werᵹan gastas. c1122O.E. Chron. an. 1052, Godwine eorl..teah þa up his seᵹl. a1225Juliana 8 Ant tuhen him ȝont te tun, from strete to strete. a1225Ancr. R. 324 Hwo is þet durste slepen þeo hwule þet his deadlich fo heolde on itowen sweord ouer his heaued? c1275Lay. 4995 Þane hem ȝeo vp teh [c 1205 i-tæh] to hire cneon wel neh. 13..K. Alis. 7070 To shipp he may hem beren & teen. 1375Barbour Bruce xv. 282 He gert men..Salys to the toppis te. c1400Destr. Troy 10382 To tegh as a traytor, and traile vpon þe erthe. 1446Lydg. Nightingale Poems ii. 166 The Iewes my flessh asonder dide tee.
b. To draw to oneself, to take to or upon oneself.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xvi. 99 Ðæt he tio [v.r. teo] on hine selfne oðerra monna scylda. 925–35Laws Athelstan ii. c. 9 Þæt he hit on folc ryht him to teo. c1205Lay. 1641 He..tæh hit to his aȝre hond. c1315Shoreham iii. 285 For al hys þefte þat man teȝt. c1400St. Alexius (Trin.) 449 Þat writ he drouȝ & ȝerne teiȝ. a1500Sir Beues (S.) 2319 His ryng he gan to him tee.
c. To lead, bring (an army, etc.). Only OE.
a900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xiv. [xviii.] (1890) 208 Penda Mercna cyning teah here and fyrd wið Eastengle.
2. fig. To draw, lead, entice, allure; to bring into some condition. Const. to.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxvi. §1 Sio ᵹecynd eow tihð to ðæm andᵹite. [971Blickl. Hom. 37 Seo oferfyll þæs lichoman ᵹetyhþ þone mon to synnum.] c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 139 And teh folc to him to heren his wise word. a1250[see A. 1 c].
3. To bring up, train, discipline, educate, teach.
c1000ælfric Gram. (Z.) 166 Imbuo, ic ty [v.r. ic teo] oððe ic lære; imbui, ic teah. c1205,a1225[see A. 3]. a1250Owl & Night. 1725 Heo wes itowen [v.r. itoȝen] among mankunne. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1913 He wulde ðat he sulde hem ten Ðat he wel-ðewed sulde ben.
4. To bring forth, produce. Only OE. (Cf. team n., teem v.1)
c1000ælfric Gen. i. 20 Teon nu þa wæteru forð swimmende cynn. Ibid. 21 Eall libbende fisccinn..þe þa wæteru tuᵹon forð on heora hiwum.
5. To draw out, protract, prolong.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 149 Wumme..þat min biwist is teȝed here swo longe.
6. a. refl. To betake oneself; to withdraw. (Cf. draw v. 67.)
c1205Lay. 640 He tah hine aȝein ane þrowe. c1275Ibid. 20086 Þis i-seh Arthur..and teh hine [c 1205 thehte hine] a bacward.
b. intr. To proceed, go: = draw v. 68. (Cf. Ger. ziehen. The most usual sense in ME.)
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxv. §7 He..teah to wuda. c1122O.E. Chron. an. 1096, Fela..ham tuᵹon. c1205Lay. 18274 Þat folc ut of wude teh. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 4370 So gret folc of romeins..þat sone wolleþ out te [v.r. teo]. c1300Harrow. Hell 8 Þat alle mosten to helle te. 13..Sir Beues (A.) 501 Forþ þe kniȝtes gonne te, Til þat hii come to þe se. 13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 87, I schal tee in-to Tarce, & tary þere a whyle. c1450Lovelich Grail lii. 568 Aȝens that knyht ȝe scholen not Te. c1450Cov. Myst. iii. (1841) 33 As to my fadyr, lete us now tee.
▪ VII. † tee, v.2 Obs. rare.
[OE. tíon, téon, contr. from *tíhan, = OS. tîhan in aftîhan to refuse, OHG. zîhan, MHG. zîhen to accuse, show to be guilty, inform against, ON. tjá from *tíha to show, tell, relate, report, Goth. ga-teihan to show, make known. Orig. a strong vb. *tíhan (táh, tiᵹon, tiᵹen), of ablaut series tīh-, taih-, tih-, cognate with Gr. δεικ-νύναι to show, L. dīc-ĕre to tell, Skr. dīç- to show, point out. But already in OE. confused in inflexion with téon from *téohan to draw, tee v.1, in consequence of the falling together of the contracted pres. stems tío-, téo-. Rare in ME. In quot. c 1440 tyxste app. = tyhst.]
trans. To accuse. (In quot. a 1300, ? to show, make known; or ? to tell, relate.)
871–901Laws of ælfred c. 33 Gif hwa oðerne..tion [v.r. teon] wille, þæt he hwelcne ne ᵹelæste þara ða he him ᵹesealde [etc.]. Ibid. c. 36 §1 Gif hine mon tio [v.r. teo] ᵹewealdes on ðære dæde, ᵹetriowe hine be þam wite. c1000ælfric Gen. xxxi. 31 Nu þu me stale tyhst. Ibid. xliv. 7 Hwi tihþ ure hlaford us swa micles falses? a1300Beket 1180 Holi churche he aboute dure [v.r. a-bouȝte deore] that me tiȝth on wide [v.r. tellez of wel wide]. c1440York Myst. xxxii. 287 Kaiph... Fye on the, traytoure attaynte, at þis tyde; Of treasoune þou tyxste hym, þat triste þe for trewe.
▪ VIII. tee, v.3 Golf.|tiː|
[f. tee n.2, and like it app. a clipt form of the 17th c. teaz.]
1. a. trans. To place (a ball) on the tee. Also with up. Hence intr. with up: to place a ball on a tee; (transf.) to prepare to play. b. intr. with off: To play a ball from the tee. Also transf., to begin a game or performance.
1673Wedderburn's Vocab. 37, 38 (Jam.) Statumina þilam arena, Teaz your ball on the sand. 1737[see teed below]. 1828Scott Jrnl. 14 May, I can only tee the ball; he must strike the blow with the golf club himself. 1862Chambers' Encycl. IV. 823/2 An attendant, called a caddy, who carries his clubs and ‘tees’ his balls. 1895W. T. Linskill Golf ii. (ed. 3) 10 To tee a ball for driving, it is usual to place it on some small eminence on the surface of the turf... A ball is sometimes teed on a few short blades of stiff grass. 1895Westm. Gaz. 19 June 7/2 Will any golfer send a shilling to open the subscription? Or, preferably, will the Royal and Ancient tee off? 1906J. Braid Golf Guide v. 34 It is not a good thing to tee up very near to the teeing-box. 1906Macm. Mag. Aug. 773 The golfer proceeds to the tee-ing off spot, tees up his ball, mentally imagines that he is standing on a species of gridiron, and places his feet in the position [etc.]. 1960Times 3 Feb. 15/7 [Rugby] As Pennington tee-ed up, the Thomas's touch judge..was leaning against one of the uprights. 1961A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Business Jargon 86 Tee off, to open the show. 1974Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 18 Apr. c2/2 Coluccio teed off on a 3–1 offering from the reliever. 1975Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 12 Sept. 9/4 The players are allowed to tee up every shot, since the ball may land in a tree or a pile of rocks.
2. fig.
a. Chiefly trans. with up: to make ready, to arrange. colloq.
1938Partridge World of Words ix. 269 Modern sports have provided us with..few words but a very fair ‘bag’ of phrases..tee up..from golf. 1941[see promote v. 8]. 1943C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 60 Teed up, all set to start. 1958N. Culotta They're a Weird Mob iii. 34, I gotta go an' see about all that metal an' stuff, an' tee up the mixer. 1961‘J. le Carré’ Call for Dead vii. 78, I left the car out in the yard, full of petrol and teed up. 1973Times 22 Jan. 19/1 Initially he will go to the capitals of the member states for talks with central governments and to tee up trips to problem areas.
b. [Prob. euphem. alteration of peed off (= pissed off: see piss v. 3 b).] trans. with off: to anger, annoy, irritate. Hence teed off ppl. a., angry, annoyed, disgruntled, indignant. N. Amer. slang.
1955Amer. Speech XXX. 120 Teed off.., angry, indignant. 1961Lebende Sprachen VI. 100/1 Don't tee him off,..raise his dander, get his Irish up. 1963D. Hughes Expendable Man i. 22 You're teed off at me, aren't you? 1969C. F. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 34 Well this makes old Pharaoh really teed off. So he gets his army and he says, ‘Get 'em.’ 1977New Yorker 27 June 68/2 Frankly, it just tees me off. I consider them to be a god-damned curse. 1981G. V. Higgins Rat on Fire xvii. 119 He is kind of teed off... I mean, this man is angry.
c. intr. with off (const. on): to hit out at, attack, reprimand, criticize severely. U.S. slang.
1955H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy (1956) i. 10, I thought you were about to tee off on Ben... Let's both stop making cracks. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 4 July 2-e/1 Our country is not at war. Despite all the sabre rattling.., the nation is not about to tee off on another nation, large or small.
Hence teed |tiːd| ppl. a., placed on or played from a tee; teeing |ˈtiːɪŋ| vbl. n.; also attrib. as teeing-ground, a small patch of ground from which the ball is teed off.
1737Ramsay Scot. Prov. xxxiii. (1750) 89 That's a tee'd ba'. 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xiii, All that is managed for ye like a tee'd ball. 1890John Bull 5 Apr. 226/2 Two hundred yards..distance from the teeing-ground. 1893Stevenson Catriona xviii, They had taken a word from the golfing green, and called me the ‘Tee'd Ball’. 1903Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 4/2 Far better to recognise that placing is virtually teeing, and have done with it.
▪ IX. tee, v.4
[f. tee n.1]
trans. To connect or branch off by a tee-piece. (In quot. absol.)
1908Installation News II. 83/1 Bring a ½-in. tube..to the light in the hall, teeing off to the switch on the wall and from thence to the living room lights.
▪ X. tee
obs. f. tea; obs. and dial. f. tie. |