单词	divot
释义	divot /ˈdɪvət / noun 1A piece of turf cut out of the ground by a golf club in making a stroke or by a sports player’s boot: he hit a wedge shot and carved a hefty divot out of the fairway... Excluding the cost of fairway seeding, a typical program with bentgrass for greens, and divots on tees and fairways is about $2,500. If you are creating giant-size, King Kong divots, you're digging too deeply into the ground. Jack Nicklaus, one of the game's best long-iron players, never seemed to take a divot. 1.1A small hole made by the removal of a divot: if your ball finds a divot to rest in... Bedi spun it like a top, the ball occasionally taking a divot out of the wet mud that passed for a wicket. He was allowed, after 28 minutes, to dribble from midfield to the edge of the box, before the ball bobbled on one of the many divots. It was impossible to dribble the ball for more than five yards before it hopped on a divot or dropped in a crumbly hole. 2chiefly Scottish A piece of turf, as formerly used for roofing cottages. Origin Early 16th century: of unknown origin. Rhymes pivot
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