dogleg
dogleg
Definition
dog·leg (dôg′leg′)
noun
a sharp angle or bend like that formed by a dog's hind leg, as in a golf fairway
intransitive verb -·legged′, -·leg′·ging
to go or lie in one direction and then angle off in another
adjective
of, or having the form of, a dogleg
dogleg
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- leave: A dogleg left with a sloping fairway that can propel the ball to the right.
- make: More so because we were surveying as we went and the passage made sharp doglegs every few meters.
- take: Taking a dogleg to the south east, we visit the vast, mid-channel gravel beds, fifty meters down.
- have: A cursus at Rudston, like one at Stonehenge, has a dogleg.
Adjective modifier
- slight: Go straight across crossroads ( slight dogleg ) into Priory Lane.
- sharp: More so because we were surveying as we went and the passage made sharp doglegs every few meters.
- left: Hole 6 Par 4 - 325 m This par 4, with a slight incline, is a left dogleg.
Modifies a noun
- right: There are bunkers on both sides of the fairway on this dogleg right where the green slopes away on both sides.
- stair: Dogleg stairs lead up to three delightful bedrooms and a useful office for those who need the convenience of contact.
- left: If the hole turns to the left, it is called a " dogleg left.
Noun used with modifier
- way: The Cotswold Way, Standish Wood After about 800m the route of the Cotswold Way doglegs to the left.
- path: As you draw level with a slope up to your left the path doglegs a little to make its way up the bank.
- right-left: A short right-left dogleg brings you into the short lane to the pretty locality of Woodford.
- route: The route doglegs left along this track for a short distance then hard right, to cross a footbridge over a nameless stream.
