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noun

Tee n.

The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.

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.

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.

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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Etymology of 'Tee'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tee" Quotes from Famous Books

... the eighteenth tee went kerplunk into the mud, and buried itself like a startled woodchuck. He said nothing, but took a left-handed club from his bag—for he began the game left-handed, and had switched over the year before, upon hearing our professional say that no left-handed player could ever become a great ...

— Penguin Persons & Peppermints • Walter Prichard Eaton

... to stop, or to turn her head a fraction of an inch, and Weary's face sobered a little. It was the first time that inimitable "Tee-e-cher" of his had failed to bring the smile back into the eyes of Miss Satterly. He looked after her dubiously. Her shoulders were thrown well back and her feet pressed their imprint firmly into the yellow dust of the trail. In a minute she would ...

— The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories • B. M. Bower

... for the sun has driven in equal flight The stars before him from the Tee of Night, And holed them every one without a miss, Swinging at ease his gold-shod Shaft ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) • Various

... done the short third hole at Mt. Agel in three. (His first had cleverly dislodged the ball from the piled-up tee; his second, a sudden nick, had set it rolling down the hill to the green; and the third, an ...

— The Sunny Side • A. A. Milne

... ma! Tee watch! tee watch!" cried the child, almost wild with delight—at the same time advancing towards her as far as the chain would permit, and then tugging at it as hard as he could, to the no small discomfort of the visitor, who, seeing no movement of relief on ...

— Home Scenes, and Home Influence - A Series of Tales and Sketches • T. S. Arthur

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