"Eagle" (Verb)

[Fred Shapiro]

The OED does not have the golf term "eagle" as a verb.  Here's an early
citation:

1934 _Wash. Post_ 26 AUg. M16  McChesney ... eagled the third hole at
Columbia a few weeks ago.

Fred Shapiro


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