lofter

loft +‎ -er

lofter (plural lofters)

1. (golf) An obsolete golf club, the predecessor of the niblick.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me. ¶ “You might at least have tried me, Mrs. Cooke,” I said.

• lofting iron

• Lefort, floret, forlet, torfel