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putt

[puht] Golf.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1. to strike (the ball) gently so as to make it roll along the green into the hole.
–noun
2. an act of putting.
3. a stroke made in putting.

Origin:
1735–45; orig. Scots, var. of put
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putt   (pŭt)   
n.  A light golf stroke made on the putting green in an effort to place the ball into the hole.
v.   putt·ed, putt·ing, putts

v.   tr.
To hit (a golf ball) with a light stroke on the green.
v.   intr.
To putt a golf ball.

[Variant of put.]
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