Meanings
nounpyratone (uncountable)
- historicaluncountableA plastic-like substance once used for the outer coating of golf clubs.
Many of these shafts looked so much like wood that, even today, the unknowing often mistake pyratone-covered shafts for wood shafts.
2003, Jeffery B. Ellis, The golf club: 400 years of the good, the beautiful & the creative
Origin
From a brand name, Pyratone.
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pyratone. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyratone
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“pyratone.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyratone. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pyratone,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pyratone.
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