Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
groin , 3. - noun An obsolete form of
groin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
groin .
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- noun A (usually wooden) structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion,
longshore drift etc.; abreakwater
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
Etymologies
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Examples
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A wrong right: the zebra crossing in Dulwich A sign on Frington beach in Essex which should say 'groyne'
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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A wrong right: the zebra crossing in Dulwich A sign on Frington beach in Essex which should say 'groyne'
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Unfortunately, this also reduces sand replenishment on the downdrift side, necessitating the construction of another groyne.
Archive 2006-07-01 2006
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Unfortunately, this also reduces sand replenishment on the downdrift side, necessitating the construction of another groyne.
Beached 2006
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The officer, always thinly clad (both through the state of his wardrobe and his dread of effeminate comfort), settled his bony shoulders against the rough stonework, and his heels upon a groyne, and gave his subordinate a nod, which meant, “Make no fuss, but out with it.”
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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The problem was that rather than offer shelter from the wind the groyne was faciltating a sandstorm around the whole area.
Sand 2004
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Ocean, and at Degerhamm on the Baltic, where the water is only one-seventh as salt as the North Sea, while the concrete blocks were built up in the form of a breakwater or groyne at Thyboron on the west coast of Jutland.
The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns Henry C. Adams 1912
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In addition, concrete blocks were made, allowed to remain in moist sand for three months, and were then placed in the form of a groyne in the sea between high and low-water mark.
The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns Henry C. Adams 1912
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There, as if really unable to get up again, he remained crouching under the groyne, looking up in an attitude of painful anxiety.
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The moment came when the pursuer was hovering about from left to right only a few yards beyond the groyne where the runner lay in hiding.
chained_bear commented on the word groyne
... really?
*suspects a trick*
January 17, 2009
bilby commented on the word groyne
*waves wand with a flourish*
January 17, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word groyne
"The bricks curved up from the floor in groynes, making arches all along both sides of the corridors. Storage alcoves and cells. Above the groynes, though, ran sturdy beams made of eight-inch pine. Over that, thick planking—and above the planks, the layer of bricks that formed the floor of the warehouse."
—Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn (NY: Dell, 1997), 997
January 20, 2010
fbharjo commented on the word groyne
that wood be!?
August 3, 2012