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Definition of Driving iron
1. Noun. (golf) the long iron with the most nearly vertical face.
Definition of Driving iron
1. Noun. (golf) An iron golf club which can be used as a driver. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Driving Iron
Literary usage of Driving iron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Golf by Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Henry James Moncreiff Moncreiff (1892)
"The names of the heavy iron, light iron, sand iron, driving iron, and lofting iron,
... A slow-swinging golfer will probably play with a heavy driving iron, ..."
2. Great Golfers: Their Methods at a Glance by George William Beldam, Harold H. Hilton (1904)
"... a peculiar feature, however, is that the swing with the mashie is much more
like that with the wooden club, than that with the driving iron. ..."
3. Railway Signal Engineering (mechanical) by Leonard P. Lewis (1912)
"If the travel of the driving iron is so short that one notch never moves sufficiently
far to allow of its coming opposite a lock in another channel, ..."
4. Intimate Golf Talks by John Duncan Dunn, Elon Jessup (1920)
"At this point the pupil confessed to a stupen- FlG. 2 A complete set of clubs.
Left to right : Driver, brassie, spoon, driving iron, ..."
5. How to Play Golf by Henry James Whigham (1897)
"By a cleek I mean any weapon of the driving iron tribe which you may happen to
fancy. It may be a straight- faced driving iron, a driving mashie or a common ..."
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