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mash⋅y

  [mash-ee]
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–noun, plural mash⋅ies. Golf.
mashie.

mash⋅ie

  [mash-ee]
–noun Golf.
a club with an iron head, the face having more slope than a mashie iron but less slope than a mashie niblick.
Also, mashy.
Also called number five iron.

Origin:
1880–85; perh. < F massue club < VL *matteūca, deriv. of *matte(a) mace 1
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mashie 
"five iron," 1881, from Scot., probably from Fr. massue "club," from V.L. *mattiuca, from L. mateola "a tool for digging" (see mace (1)).
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