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Putter   /pˈətər/   Listen
noun
Putter  n.  
1.
One who puts or plates.
2.
Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. (Prov. Eng.)


Putter  n.  (Golf)
(a)
A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a metal head, used in putting.
(b)
One who putts.


verb
Putter  v. i.  (past & past part. puttered; pres. part. puttering)  To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around in the garden.





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"Putter" Quotes from Famous Books



... for battle. One sporting character emitted an appalling "View Halloo" and there were a few "Yoicks" and "Gone Aways" to support his little solecism. Lucille, rushing to Dam, encountered the fleeing reptile and with a neat stroke of her putter ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren
... a couple of innocent looking white balls across the landscape. Every now and then they would come upon a grass lawn with an iron cup in the centre of it, and then each Potent Noble would waste a lot of time urging his ball into the cup with the short and deadly putter which was normally used for slaughtering whisky golfs which ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley
... months on "Yvytot," but as a matter of fact he had been mulling it over for twice that many years; and he had hoped to finish it in time for his "Little Book of Western Verse." But it was one of those bits of verse upon which he loved to putter, and he was loath to put it into type beyond the reach of occasional revision. When the "Little Book of Western Verse" was issued in popular form "Yvytot" was included in it in the place of the list of subscribers and John Wilson & Son's colophon. ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... jobs to keep a body on the jump morning and night. Not only mother but any other females handy. There are those who grumble that women could find enough to do at home now if they only tried. They cannot, unless they have young children or unless they putter endlessly at nonessentials, the doing of which leaves them and everybody else no better off than before they began. And it is part of the way we are made that besides wanting to work, we need to work at something we feel "gets us some place." We prefer ...
— Working With the Working Woman • Cornelia Stratton Parker
... straight on his head. It is true he has his right thumb laid along the edge of the bat, but maybe he likes to bunt that way. There is something in the picture that I don't get, I am afraid, just as there is in the picture of two men playing golf. One is about to putt. Aside from the fact that his putter seems just a trifle long, I should have to give up my guess and take ...
— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley


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