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Original entry ↗noun
A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. · A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour. · A drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.
1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).
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