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Fairway

noun

The area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short.

The usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters.

A tract of ground free of obstacles to movement.

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"Fairway" Quotes from Famous Books

... Calhoun's fate for him. Here he was—at sea, a common sailor in the navy. He and Michael Clones had eaten and drunk as sailors do, and they had realized that, as they ate and drank on the River Thames, they would not eat and drink on the watery fairway. They had seen the tank foul with age, from which water was drawn for men who could not live without it, and the smell of it had revolted Dyck's senses. They had seen the kegs of pickled meat, and they had been told ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... the vessel in if one had not known the channel would have been to lean over the side and to keep the boy at the helm off the very evident shallows and the crusted rocks by gestures of one's hands, for the fairway was like a trench, deep and blue. So we slid into Palma haven, and as we rounded the pier the light wind took us first abeam and then forward; then we let go and she swung up and was still. They lowered ...

— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc

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