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groyne
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"strong, low sea wall," 1580s, perhaps from obsolete groin "pig's snout" (c.1300; the wall so called because it was thought to look like one), from Old French groin , from Latin grunnire "grunt."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A groyne ( groin in the United States) is a rigid hydraulic structure built from an ocean shore (in coastal engineering ) or from a bank (in rivers) that interrupts water flow and limits the movement of sediment . It is usually made out of wood, concrete ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Thomas decided that the solution was a rounded end to the groyne .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Groyne \Groyne\, n. [Obs.] See Groin .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away [syn: breakwater , groin , mole , bulwark , seawall , jetty ]
Usage examples of groyne.
And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.
Down at the sea-shore in the sunny hours, out from the woodwork of the groynes or bulwarks, there came a white spotted spider, which must in some way have known the height to which the tide came at that season, because he was far below high-water mark.
Yet still there was a particular sight which surprised Jalila more than any other as she clambered over the ropes and groynes of the long shingle beach which she took as a shortcut to the centre of the town when the various tides were out.
There were also, on lower ground, ragged arches leading to a high-roofed cavern called Groyne, which had good clean air, although the inhabitants of Vakk thought the inhabitants of Groyne rather barbarous, chiefly because they were members of more lowly guilds, slaughterers, tanners, diggers of chert and clay and fossil wood.
A faint yellow light in the west showed the links, on which a few figures moving toward the clubhouse were still visible, the squat martello tower, the lights of Aldsey village, the pale ribbon of sands intersected at intervals by black wooden groynes, the dim and murmuring sea.