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Definition of Divots
1. divot [n] - See also: divot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divots
Literary usage of Divots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"... who cast turfs or divots, Mearns. In Ane. it U called a pelting-poet, ie, a
poet or bag for guarding the thighs from the stroke given by the spade. ..."
2. Publications by Dorset Record Society, Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission, Ohio Historical Society (1905)
"P ' complaints hath been made by such as use to hire ther horses for money that
they ar not able to cary divots from the remotest marches wher they are ..."
3. A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments by Sir John Scott Keltie, John Wilson, Thomas Maclauchlan (1875)
"He was travelling one day, and he saw a man casting divots with the ... Oh, yes,
go round the house and you will see him laying the divots on the roof. ..."
4. Records of the Baron Court of Stitchell, 1655-1807 by George Gunn (1905)
"Loch Item for the Main rig from the west end of the wester meadow up and down
and no farther except the . . . mylne to which divots may be led from the ..."
5. The Scots Revised Reports: Morison's Dictionary, 1 to 9424 (1908)
"... but some of his witnesses proved interruptions by the town of Selkirk's cutting
of divots, cast by him and his predecessors upon the muir. ..."
6. General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of by John Sinclair (1814)
"If the roof be covered with divots, or thin turf, the thatcher must twist the
upper part of the straw, into a knot, then with a stick, prepared for the ..."
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