Definition of "whangee" [whangee]

• Any of several Asian bamboos of the genus Phyllostachys. (noun)
• A walking stick made from the woody stem of any of these bamboos. (noun)

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• "I then took my nice little steel whangee, beautifully polished, and tickled the delinquent."
• "Laxey had a bad lie and, though he lofted his ball with the putter (as I said, the whangee _did_ give it 'whip'), he didn't clear the hutments."
• "When I say we arrived, I mean that Laxey had an eight-yard putt from a good lie -- an easy proposition with the whangee putter -- and I was ten yards away in as wicked a little crevice as you could wish to find."