OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 40332

divot

/ˈdɪvət/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chuleta
A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
Soon, thick dark tufts of hair began to spread across his scalp, hanging over his ears, a moor of unruly divots which he was first unable to tame and with time willingly cultivated…
Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window, but this morning it seemed harsh a…
hoyito
A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
In these coldest hours before dawn, from three until six, I take up my knife again and hack at the chockstone. I continue to make minimal but visible progress in the divot.
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