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  • noun Plural form of divet.

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Examples

  • From this to the henhouse, whose roof was of "divets," the descent was comparatively easy, and a slanting board allowed the daring bellman to slide thence to the ground.

    Auld Licht Idylls 1898

  • From this to the hen-house, whose roof was of "divets," the descent was comparatively easy, and a slanting board allowed the daring bellman to slide thence to the ground.

    Auld Licht Idyls 1898

  • Soaring low on their approach, they used I-70 as their cookie crumb trail, a double belted strip of asphalt marred by hundreds of divets in the median, burned out semi tractor tractors with their backs cracked open, spilling canned spam, toilet paper and cosmetics over the land.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » It’s like an unexpected fanfic festival. 2009

  • Bad decorators should stick to golf-themed cakes, then they can always claim "those are divets!"

    Proper Grooming Jen 2009

  • Mr. Turse is at the tee-off ready for a big drive into the back nine, but he's following in Dr. Johnson's divets.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Caddell 2008

  • I then piped the icing into these divets and then covered the whole layer with more icing.

    homemade devil dog, ding dong or hostess cake | smitten kitchen 2008

  • Magnesium and plastic surfaces were quite nice, but lines weren't perfect and some of the buttons and shock-absorbing nubs weren't centered in their assigned divets.

    The Tech Report: News 2010

  • We were in the Hamptons again, kicking up sand and divets as always.

    Gawker 2009

  • We were in the Hamptons again, kicking up sand and divets as always.

    Gawker: Defamer 2009

  • We were in the Hamptons again, kicking up sand and divets as always.

    Gawker 2009

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