backweight
nounEtymology From back + weight.
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Golf, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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: