Meaning & use
divot
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.
A note on using this word
Correctly spelled 'divot'; the common misspelling 'divit' swaps the second vowel.
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