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divot

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɪvət/Part of speech nounSorted diotvStarts with DEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club)

Word origin

1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).

Used in a sentence

  • Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window, but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.
  • Soon, thick dark tufts of hair began to spread across his scalp, hanging over his ears, a moor of unruly divots which he was first unable to tame and with time willingly cultivated.
  • In these coldest hours before dawn, from three until six, I take up my knife again and hack at the chockstone. I continue to make minimal but visible progress in the divot.

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