backweight

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noun

A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.

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Meanings

nounbackweight (plural backweights)

plural backweights

  1. golfA 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

Origin

From back + weight.

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APA

backweight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/backweight

MLA

“backweight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/backweight. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “backweight,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/backweight.

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