Associations to the word «Divot»

Wiktionary

DIVOT, noun. A torn up piece of turf (e.g. by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof).
DIVOT, noun. A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.

Dictionary definition

DIVOT, noun. (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke; "it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot".
DIVOT, noun. A piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne