Meaning & use

divot

noun·Academic

A piece of turf or grass torn up, especially by a golf club or a horse's hoof.

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He carefully replaced the divot after his club dug into the fairway.

The riders' horses left divots scattered across the muddy field.

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Correctly spelled 'divot'; the common misspelling 'divit' swaps the second vowel.

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