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Chapman: (also 'chapman scotch, pinehurst') a variation on a four-ball match between two 2-man teams where each player hits a tee shot, then players on the same team switch and hit their teammate's b . . . View Full Definition

Heptameter: Seven feet, a measure made up of seven feet (fourteeners). Examples are chapman's translation of homer's 'iliad,' edgar allan poe's 'annabel lee,' and rudyard kipling's 'tommy.' cf. Poulter' . . . View Full Definition

Poulters Measure: Couplets in which a twelve-syllable line rhymes with a fourteen-syllable line. Chapman uses this form in his translation of homer. Hymn writers split the couplet into a quatrain (6 6 8 6), a . . . View Full Definition

Scotch Foursome: A game where 2 two-man teams play one ball per team and teammates alternate strokes, the tee shot being hit by one team member on odd numbered holes and the other on even numbered holes (see . . . View Full Definition