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backweights

backweights is the plural of backweight.

Meaning of backweight

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

Questions about backweights

What is backweights the plural of?
Backweights is the plural of backweight.

Words near backweights in the dictionary

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

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