Tee

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.

II. Tee ·add. ·vt To place (the ball) on a tee.

III. Tee ·noun The nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf.

IV. Tee ·add. ·noun The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter T.

V. Tee ·noun A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line;

— so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.