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pyratone

pyratone noun: a plastic-like substance once used for the outer coating of golf clubs.

Noun

pyratone (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A plastic-like substance once used for the outer coating of golf clubs.
    • Many of these shafts looked so much like wood that, even today, the unknowing often mistake pyratone-covered shafts for wood shafts.2003, Jeffery B. Ellis, The golf club: 400 years of the good, the beautiful & the creative

Origin of pyratone

From a brand name, Pyratone.

Questions about pyratone

What does pyratone mean?
Pyratone means a plastic-like substance once used for the outer coating of golf clubs.
What part of speech is pyratone?
Pyratone is a noun.

Words near pyratone in the dictionary

  1. pyrargyrite
  2. pyrargyrites
  3. pyrate
  4. pyrates
  5. pyrathiazine
  6. pyratone
  7. pyrausta
  8. pyraustas
  9. pyrazin
  10. pyrazinamidase
  11. pyrazinamidases

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