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单词 peg-tee
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peg-tee
The starting-place (formerly a little heap of earth or sand) from which the ball is driven in commencing to play each hole: now usually a wooden or plastic peg with a concave top; also called tee-peg or peg-tee.
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a1646 D. Wedderburn Vocabula (1685) 38 Statumen, the Teaz.
1721 A. Ramsay Ode to Ph—— ii Driving their baws frae whins or tee.
1875 W. A. Smith Lewsiana 147 Each [shell] is seated on a sandy ‘tee’, formed by the wind sweeping away the sand around it.
1879 Encycl. 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).
1905 Daily News 7 Jan. 12 At two o'clock,..the golfing party were at the first tee.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Oct. 11/6 Golf clubs..bags, balls, tees, [etc.].
1926 Amer. Speech 1 631/2 There are also tees of rubber, and recently wooden pegs on which balls may be teed have come into vogue.
1952 L. T. Stanley Woman Golfer 53 Many players prefer to play iron shots to a short hole off a peg-tee.
1959 D. Thomas Instr. to Young Golfers xix. 106 He takes a ball.., places it on a tee-peg..and..smites it a good fifty yards.
1962 Times 3 Jan. 3/6 The only indication of a satisfactory hit is the speed with which the striker bends down to recover his tee.
1975 Oxf. 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.
attributive.1862 R. Chambers Few Rambling Remarks Golf 14 The tee-shots are usually the furthest, long drivers being able to send a ball upwards of two hundred yards.1901 Daily Chron. 7 June 8/3 Vardon was beaten in the tee shots.
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