address
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7. Sports. To adjust and aim the club at (a golf ball) in preparing for a stroke.
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[Middle English adressen, to direct, from Old French adresser, from Vulgar Latin *addīrēctiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre, to straighten (from Latin dīrēctus past participle of dīrigere, to direct). See