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▪ I. divot, n. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈdɪvət|
Forms: 6 diffat, -et, devait, (dovet), 7–8 devot, 7–9 divet (7 divott, 8 diviot), 7– divot.
1. a. A slice of earth with the grass growing upon it, a turf, a sod, such as are used in the north for roofing cottages, forming the edges of thatched roofs, the tops of dry-stone walls, etc.
The thicker, more earthy sods used in building walls or dikes, are called fails; hence the common collocation fail and divot. The digging and throwing up of either is ‘casting’: see cast v. 28.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 179 Gret strenthis of treis, stanis and devaitis. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1829) 27 This kiln was first covered with divots. 1771Pennant Tour Scotl. (1790) 132 The houses..are formed with loose stones and covered with clods which they call devots. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. V. 214 A coverlet worked as thick as a divot. 1843T. Wilson Pitman's Pay Note (Northumbld. Gloss.), The cottages on the Fell were all covered with divots. a1852Macgillivray Nat. Hist. Dee Side (1855) 193 [He] conducted us to his Museum, a little hut, built of stones and roofed with divots. 1895Crockett Men of Mosshags 150 Clodding him with divots of peat and sod.
b. As a material.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 172 He beildit ane huge wall of fail and devait. 1541Ld. Treas. Accts. in Pitcairn Crim. Trials (1830) I. 312 Theking of the Tour with brwme and dovet. a1575Diurnal of Occurrents (1833) 322 The toun of Edinburgh begane to big thair fortressis of diffet and mik. 1605Feu Contract in J. Mill Diary (1889) 193 To cast faill and devot on the ground of Sumburgh..according to use and wont. 1730Crt. Bk. of Barony of Urie (1892) 133 The said turf or divot so cast to be forfeit. 1861Smiles Engineers II. Rennie i. 102 To fetch a load of ‘divot’ from Gladsmuir, or of coal from the nearest colliery.
c. Sc. Law. fail (feal) and divot, ‘a rural servitude, importing a right in the proprietor of the dominant tenement to cut and remove turf for fences or for thatching or covering houses or the like purposes, within the dominant lands’ (Bell Dict. Law Scot.).
1593Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §161 That the saidis glebes be designed with freedome of foggage, pastourage, fewall, faill, diffat, loning, frie ischue and entrie. 1693Stair Instit. Law Scot. ii. vii. §13 (ed. 2) 288 A Servitude of Pasturage introduced by Fourty years peaceable Possession of the Pasturage, was not to be extended to Feal and Divet. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 223 We have two predial servitudes..viz. that of fuel or feal and divot, and of thirlage. 1773― Instit. Law Scot. I. ii. ix. §17. 1814 Scott Wav. xlii, Rights of pasturage—fuel—feal and divot.
d. Golf. A piece of turf cut out with a club by a player in making a stroke.
1886H. G. Hutchinson Hints on Golf 9 With an iron club an unskilful player is more likely to cut fids of turf—golficè, ‘divots’—out of the green. 1890― Golf x. 272 A divot well replaced is, in most conditions of the ground, as a divot that has never been cut. 1935O. Nash Primrose Path (1936) 105 The wretched golfer, divot-bound.
2. Comb., as divot-cast, as much (land) as one divot might be ‘cast’ or cut off; divot-seat, one made of divots; divot-spade, a spade for casting turf, a flaughter-spade.
1725Ramsay Gent. Sheph. ii. i, There you may see him lean, And to his divot-seat invites his frien'. 1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 153 (Jam.) The old shepherd was sitting on his divot-seat, without the door. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xii, He hasna a divot-cast of land in Scotland.
▪ II. ˈdivot, v. Sc.
[f. prec. n.]
a. trans. To cover with divots;
b. intr. ‘To cast or cut divots’ (Jam.).
1696Banff Burgh Rec. in Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 176 To repaire the thatch by divoteing the house.
▪ III. divot
obs. Sc. form of devout. |