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Tee   /ti/   Listen
noun
Tee  n.  
1.
The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.
2.
The nodule of earth, or a short peg stuck into the ground, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole in golf.



Tee  n.  
1.
A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.
2.
The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter T.



verb
Tee  v. t.  (past & past part. teed; pres. part. teeing)  (Golf) To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to tee up.






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... thermometers is given in Fig. 65 in which A is an end view of the turbine bedplate, B is a turbine bearing and C and D are the inlet and outlet pipes, respectively. The thermometer fittings, which are placed as near the bearing as is practicable, are made in the form of an angular tee fitting, the oil pipes being screwed into its ends. The construction of the oil cup and tee piece is shown in the detail at the left where A is the steel tee piece, into which is screwed the brass thermometer cup B. The hollow bottom portion of this ...
— Steam Turbines - A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of - the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers • Hubert E. Collins

... saying, I knew it as well as I know my father, says I, but I gev the preference to go the round, says I. You're a good sayman for that same, says he, an' it would be right at any other time than this present, says he, but it's onpossible now, tee-totally, on account o' the war, says he. Tare alive, says I, what war? An' didn't you hear o' the war? says he. Divil a word, says I. Why, says he, the naygers has made war on the king o' Chaynee, says he, bekase he refused them any more tay; an' with that, what did they do, says he, but they put ...
— Stories of Comedy • Various

... Considder She sets the Dog Before you your Aunt keep know Beer know Sprits know Wines in the House of aney Sort Oneley a Little Barl of Wine I made her in the Summer the Workmen and servantes are a Blige to Drink wauter Morning Noon and Night your Aunt the Same She Donte Low her Self aney Tee nor Coffee But is ...
— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler

... a little thoughtful. His faith in his luck sustained him. He was, he realized, in the position of a man who has made a supreme drive from the tee, and finds his ball near the green but in a cuppy lie. He had gained much; it now remained for him to push his success to the happy conclusion. The driver of Luck must be replaced by the spoon—or, possibly, the ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... my ball, swung back, and then with all the vigor at my command whacked the ball square and true. It sprang from the tee like a bird let loose and flew beyond my vision, and while I was trying with my eye to keep up with it in its flight, I received a stinging blow on the back of my head which felled me to ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs


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