dogleg
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
dogleg
n 1: angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog
2: a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "dogleg":
L, aberrancy, aberration, angle, apex, bend, bias, bifurcation,
bight, branching off, cant, chevron, circuitousness, coin, corner,
crank, crankiness, crook, crookedness, crotchet, curve,
declination, deflection, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy,
deviation, deviousness, digression, discursion, divagation,
divarication, divergence, diversion, double, drift, drifting,
elbow, ell, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation,
flexuosity, fork, furcation, hairpin, hook, indirection,
inflection, knee, nook, obliquity, pererration, point, quoin,
rambling, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path,
skew, slant, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging,
switchback, tack, turn, turning, twist, variation, veer, vertex,
wandering, warp, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag, zigzaggery
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