Turf Tonic [1] 
A material applied to a turf surface to primarily either give a small visual boost to the grass or to green it up. Nitrogen and Iron are the main nutrients used as turf tonics.
Turfie
An informal, generic term, often used in social media posts to identify or refer to an individual whose main employment involves looking after turfgrass areas, especially sports turf, or for someone who maintains sports turf as a volunteer, such as at a grassroots football club, or someone who is passionate about lawns and turfcare. It could be argued that whilst the term is used to try and encourage a sense of belonging to a group of likeminded individuals it can also be seen as a term which inadvertently trivialises and understates the profession of grounds care by using a relatively juveni
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Turfing Iron
A specialist hand tool which is used to cut turf. It has a long handle with an angled end, to which is attached a metal cutting head. The head is typically oval to heart shaped. It is angled to lay flat on the ground. When a user applies force to the tool, the metal head cuts into the turf producing an even thickness of cut. Occasionally this tool is also called a 'Turf Float'.
Utility Tractor
A main stay of many larger sports grounds and golf courses, having a power rating of greater than 40hp, and being ideally suitable to heavy duty soil cultivators and operating heavy duty turf equipment, including mower units with five or more cylinders or decks. Ideally, a utility tractor will be complemented with a compact tractor to allow wider range of activities to be carried out more effectively, especially when ground conditions might not be suitable for a utility tractor but may be suitable for a compact tractor.
V-cut
A short reference to Verti-cut and Verti-cutting.
Vacuuming
The action of an item of equipment which, through the power of suction, removes leaves and debris from a surface.
Vertical Mowing
Verticut [2]
The action of Verticutting, which is sometimes also called vertimow.
Verticutting
The physical raking of a turf surface to raise up basal vegetation and lateral grass growth, but not into the layer below the base of the grass. It can be considered a very light form of surface scarification carried out on finer turf areas. It should not be used to penetrate any underlying thatch layer and might be set 2mm below a height of cut on fine turf (in this instance it might typically be referred to as HOC -2mm) and up to 5mm on longer harder wearing swards. This is because severe defoliation of the sward can easily occur due to how closely spaced the verticutting tines are. Verticut
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Wash Pad
A wash down area for equipment and / or machinery in which the water used for cleaning is kept within a self-contained system, recycling the used water and filtering out the debris form the washing preventing it from contaminating watercourses or surrounding soils or land. An example is the ClearWater Recycling System by Acumen Waste Services.