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Definition of Lofted
1. loft [v] - See also: loft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lofted
Literary usage of Lofted
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)
"difficult to hit quite as you wish with a very much lofted club. ... Hence the
great difficulty of correctly gauging your distance with a very lofted club. ..."
2. Chick Evans' Golf Book by Charles Evans (1921)
"One club was to be lofted like my niblick, one like my mashie, and the third was
to be ... My object was to find a club sufficiently lofted for backspin, ..."
3. Practical Golf by Walter J. Travis (1901)
"The more simply the approach shot can be played the better, as there is greater
latitude for error than in using any of the heavily lofted clubs. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"The lofted face enables the player to start the ball straight, as it will be
slightly lofted for the first foot or so. In shorter putts, to which the line ..."
5. Present-day Golf by George Duncan, Bernard Darwin (1921)
"To get a dead fall by the use of a much lofted club was held up to ... The lofted
club was a difficult and dangerous weapon, since the least fraction of ..."
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