Divot
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. especially
"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."
- 2 a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club) wordnet
- 3 A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
"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."
- 4 (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke wordnet
- 5 A drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)
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- 6 The space between two pillows.
- 1 To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke. especially, transitive
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More examples"Traverse City is in the divot between the pinky finger and the ring finger."
Etymology
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”)).
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