[
UK
/dˈɪvɒt/
]
NOUN
- a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club)
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(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke
it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot
How To Use divot In A Sentence
- Bedi spun it like a top, the ball occasionally taking a divot out of the wet mud that passed for a wicket.
- it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot
- Divots can be seen flying through the air.
- Gary Louth scrambled an early goal for Bentham and they got a fortunate second when a shot flipped up off a divot and the Grange keeper caught it but fell back over his line.
- Walter Del Rio often arrives early to thump divots out of the grass with a golf club.
- Well, well, the young boys would be tormenting the old lady -- they would be lighting green branches in the fire in her sleeping-place, to smeek her out, not meaning any ill, but just for a ploy, and to see her lindging at them with the stick from her bed, and craking and raging at them time about, to be taking the divot off the top of the lum. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
- First he got the saw to bite into it one way and then another so he could make a sort of divot.
- She held out her hand then, pretending to catch her heel on a divot, stumbled heavily against him. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
- These circular divots with their pre-measured portions and neatly crimped perimeter, are a godsend.
- About 2 hours ago: "I think he wore an earring at some point, you could see the little divot in his earlobe — how long ago and why? November 2009