Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
divot .
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- noun Alternative form of
divot .
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Examples
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- who called the Sabbath Sunday -- or dropped a "divet" down his chimney was held to be in the right way.
Auld Licht Idyls 1898
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"divet" down his chimney was held to be in the right way.
Auld Licht Idylls 1898
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They're sturdy, straight, 4 inches wider, less steep the old pitch was 46 degrees and the new pitch is 40ish degrees--you can see the divet in the concrete where the old stairs ended and each tread is 10 inches wide instead of 8 inches.
June 2009 2009
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They're sturdy, straight, 4 inches wider, less steep the old pitch was 46 degrees and the new pitch is 40ish degrees--you can see the divet in the concrete where the old stairs ended and each tread is 10 inches wide instead of 8 inches.
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Author Johnson has correctly placed the divet for which I became riled.
Archive 2006-06-01 ____Maggie 2006
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Author Johnson has correctly placed the divet for which I became riled.
Paid to write that that ____Maggie 2006
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While walking across the painted floor, there was a divet in the cement that I did not see.
Reason #5280 My Husband Will Never Make General - SpouseBUZZ 2008
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The guitar I got you mysteriously got a divet in the neck so I know it was hard to play : But I know there's sentimental value to it that can't be out done.
To Ukraine and Back Pauly V. 2007
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Damage limitation defending a 1-0 defeat against a United side who never got out of first gear, hoping for some long shot to hit a divet or something.
BBC Ouch! Blog BBC Sport 2011
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Hudson Bay in Canada is basically just a divet where a patch of crust sunk under the weight of a glacier.
Boing Boing Maggie Koerth-Baker 2011
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