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Loft: 1. The angle/cant/slope/pitch/grade of the clubface relative to the shaft of the club from the frontal plane 2. Hoist or lift

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Short Iron: Any of the more lofted, shorter-shafted irons (usually considered the 8 through all wedges)

Smother: A shot that either doesn't leave the ground or flies very lowly because the clubface contacted the ball in a position that was much to closed and hooded (delofted)

Straight-Faced: A club that has a relatively steep (not much loft) clubface

Sand Wedge: (also 'sandwedge, sand iron') a lofted club with a flange specifically designed for (but not limited to) use in the sand

Spoon: Archaic term for a 3 wood or more lofted wood

Rutting Iron: (archaic) a lofted iron with a very rounded and concave face (like an eating spoon), used commonly to play from between tree roots, ruts

Pitching Wedge: (also 'wedge, p, pw, w' and more) a lofted short iron (usually next in chronological order after the 9 iron and somewhere between 47° and 52°)