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backweight

backweight noun: a weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.

Noun

backweight (plural backweights)

  1. A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.
    • Fashioned with shafts of aged hickory, ash or lemonwood, these early clubs have heads with an insert of ram’s horn or a lead backweight.2007 September 7, Wendy Moonan, “Olde Cleeks, Spoons and Brassies (for Birdies and Bogeys)”, in New York Times

Forms of backweight

pluralbackweights

Origin of backweight

From back + weight.

Questions about backweight

What does backweight mean?
Backweight means a weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.
What part of speech is backweight?
Backweight is a noun.
What is the plural of backweight?
The plural of backweight is backweights.

Words near backweight in the dictionary

  1. backwaterish
  2. backwaters
  3. backwatery
  4. backway
  5. backways
  6. backweight
  7. backweights
  8. Backwell
  9. backwind
  10. backwinded
  11. backwinding

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