| 单词 | threeball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthree-ball three-ball adj. of a golf match: involving three players, each playing his own ball. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [adjective] > types of match or game three-ball1839 four-ball1904 Stableford1937 1839 Rules of Honourable Company Edinb. Golfers in C. B. Clapcott Rules of Golf (1935) 69 In a Three-ball match, the Ball nearest the hole, and within the prescribed distance, must be lifted, if the third party require it, where the Player does so or not. 1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ix. 241 The three-ball match;..these matches are of two kinds, that wherin each plays against each, and that wherin two are in combination against a third, though each play his individual ball. 1901 Rules of Golf 5 Three players may play against each other, each playing his own ball, when the match is called ‘a three-ball match’. three-ball three-ball n. (also three-balls) a three-ball golf match. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of game or match round1744 match-playing1857 half-round1865 foursome1867 matchplay1877 stroke-game1896 threesome1901 score-play1902 stroke-competition1904 score-game1905 greensome1911 fivesome1928 skin game1942 three-ball1952 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. May 299/1 The Major introduced them without enthusiasm and Basil promptly attached himself to the party, much to the Major's annoyance, for he hated three-balls. 1976 Webster's Sports Dict. 450/1 Three-ball, a golf match in which 3 players compete against each other with each playing his own ball. < as lemmas |
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