turf-spankern. name for a kind of croquet mallet: see quot.
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turf-spanker1874
1874 J. D. HeathCompl. Croquet-player 25 The bottom of the cylindrical head..is sliced off, so that the part of the mallet that rests on the ground is quite flat. This ‘turf-spanker’..met with some opposition at first.