English
Noun
fail and divot (uncountable)
- Alternative form of feal and divot
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1808, The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture:- 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.
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1970, Ulster Folklife - Volumes 15-16, page 28:- At Tarves in 1684 the tradesmen valuators referred to mason work, dry-stone work, mud work, cassie work (cobbling), fail and divot work.
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1990, Albert Bil, The Shieling, 1600-1840, page 244:- Turf 'Fail and divot' masked the wooden components of the shieling buildings.