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DIVOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("divot" is a kind of...):
greensward; sod; sward; turf (surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots)
Domain category:
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke
Example:
it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("divot" is a kind of...):
cavity; pit (a sizeable hole (usually in the ground))
Domain category:
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
