Divot

Quick meaning: Divot is a noun meaning (especially golf) A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.

Meaning

(especially golf) A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.

More Meanings

1. A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
2. (mathematics, astronomy) A drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)
3. (transitive, especially golf) To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• divots
• divoting
• divoted

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include divet, dodo, dunch, divy, divvy, duffer.

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