tee
n. countablen. a small wooden or plastic stand that holds a golf ball off the ground. You use it to make your first shot on each hole easier to hit.
n. a small peg used to support a golf ball above the ground for the initial stroke of a hole. Often used metaphorically in the phrase 'to a tee' to indicate perfection or exactness.
He pushed the tee into the grass and placed his ball on top.
After losing his last wooden tee, he had to borrow a plastic one from his partner to start the final hole.
The professional golfer carefully adjusted the height of the tee to account for the slight headwind before selecting his driver for the long par-five opening.
* From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin tē (the name of the letter T). * (computing): By analogy with a T-shaped pipe that sends fluids in two directions.
First attested in the 17th century as teaz, back-formation from obsolete Scots teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.
From Middle English teen, from Old English tēon (which was contracted from earlier tēohan, from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan.
From Burmese ထီး (hti:, “umbrella”).
Commonly appears in the idiom 'to a tee', meaning perfectly or exactly.