fail and divot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Until within these last twenty years, the tenants on other two estates were entitled to carry fail and divot from this moor, for repairing their houses."
- "At Tarves in 1684 the tradesmen valuators referred to mason work, dry-stone work, mud work, cassie work (cobbling), fail and divot work."
- "Turf 'Fail and divot' masked the wooden components of the shieling buildings."