albatross

9 letters in word "albatross": A A B L O R S S T.

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• Definitions:
• (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps; "she was an albatross around his neck" large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight
• Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. ...
• Albatross (1968 - 1998) was a bay horse by Meadow Skipper out of Voodoo Hanover by Dancer Hanover. He was voted harness horse of the year in 1971 and 1972.
• The word albatross is sometimes used to mean an encumbrance, or a wearisome burden. It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).
• The Albatross was an American sports car venture that was planned in 1939, but that never got off the ground. The plan had been to market an ultra-streamlined four-seat tourer body, built on a standard Mercury chassis, based on a European custom-made car owned by cartoonist Peter Arno. ...
• Albatross is an episode of .
• "Albatross" is a guitar-based instrumental by Fleetwood Mac, released as a single in 1969. The piece was composed by Peter Green.
• The Albatross sketch is a Monty Python routine that was usually performed during their live shows. It first appeared in Monty Python's Flying Circus in episode 13, 'It's the Arts (or Intermission)'.
• Albatross, originally named Alk, was a sailing ship (2m; L/B/D: 82.8' × 20.8' × 9.8' (25.2m × 6.3m × 3m); Tons: 93 grt. Hull: steel. Comp.: 19. Mach.: aux., 1 screw), built as a schooner at the state shipyard in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1920, to serve as a pilot boat in the North Sea.
• a hole played three strokes under par. They are statistically more difficult to get on a par 5 than it is to get a hole in one on a par 4.
• Scoring three under par for a hole, which means holing the first shot on a par four or the second on a par five.
• A score of three under par on a hole.
• If you get one of these, ring up the newspapers or TV station and you'll become famous. An albatross is playing a hole in three under par. That means taking only two shots on a par five hole or getting a hole-in-one on a par four. Very few golfers have had an albatross. ...
• a large seabird that spends much of its life wandering over the open ocean far from land.
• Something that causes persistent deep concern or anxiety or that is an encumbrance.
• 8410 shape. See: "swan".
• (also called a "double eagle") a score of 3 under (less than) par for a hole Example: A double eagle is very rare, as is the albatross.
• A hole played three shots under par.
• A type of great, white sea bird native to the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere. Since the publication of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "albatross" has also come to mean "a constant, worrisome burden" or "an obstacle to success."
• An old British term for "Double Eagle". A double eagle occurs when a golfer makes a score of 3 below par on a given hole.
• A different word to describe a double eagle. There must have been a bird lover somewhere in the early days of golf, albatross, birdies, eagles, who knows.
• Another name for a double eagle, a score of three under par on a hole. The most famous albatross in golf's history was recorded by Gene Sarazen on the fifteenth hole at Augusta National Golf Club during the 1935 Masters Tournament. A term generally not used by the amateur golfer.
• Three strokes under par for a given hole.
• A score of three under the par for a hole (known in US as a double-eagle)

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