Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inclosing grains or streaks of iron, as an iron ore.

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  • adjective Alternative form of ironshot.

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Examples

  • An admirable iron-shot put him in reasonable proximity to the pin, and he holed out in one under bogey with one of the nicest putts I have ever beheld.

    The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

  • A perfect drive put him in position to reach the tenth green with an iron-shot, and, though the ball was several yards from the hole, he laid it dead with his approach-putt and holed his second for a bogey four.

    The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

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