lofter

loft +‎ -er

lofter (plural lofters)

1. (golf) An obsolete golf club, the predecessor of the niblick.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me. ¶ “You might at least have tried me, Mrs. Cooke,” I said.

• lofting iron

• Lefort, floret, forlet, torfel