Crossword-Solution: DIVOTS 6 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Over the rafters is laid a covering of pones, divots, or flaas,* and above this again a thatch of straw, bound down with ropes of heather, weighted at the ends with stones, as a protection against the high winds which are so prevalent.

Divots he was able to cut, and of them he provided a good quantity, but when it came to moving stones, two pairs of hands were often wanted.

When Steenie’s design was at length carried out, they had built up with stone and lime the open spaces between several of the rocks; had cased these curtain-walls outside and lined them inside with softer and warmer walls of fells or divots cut from the green sod of the hill; and had covered in the whole as they found it possible--very irregularly no doubt, but smoothing up all the corners and hollows with turf and heather.

Early in the seventeenth century, John Smith, a barn-man at a farm, was sent by his master to cast divots (turf) on the green immediately behind Merlin's Craig.

The farmer laughed at his credulity, and, anxious to cure him of such idle superstition, ordered him to take a cart and fetch home the _divots_ immediately.