groyne

British  

/ ɡrɔɪn /

noun

1. Also called: spur.   breakwater.  a wall or jetty built out from a riverbank or seashore to control erosion

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Etymology

Origin of groyne

C16: origin uncertain: perhaps altered from _groin

Example Sentences

Why, this now, which you account so choice, were counted but as a cup of bastard at the Groyne, or at Port St. Mary's.

From Kenilworth by Scott, Walter, Sir

In Flanders, under the Austrian archdukes, were stationed the McShanes, on the Groyne; the Daniells at Antwerp; the posterity of the earls themselves with that of their former retinue.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

Our ancestors, who had good reason to know the place, called it The Groyne, but it would be pedantic to so call it now.

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

Corunna stands on a peninsula, having on one side the sea, and on the other the celebrated bay, generally called the Groyne.

From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

The two packets between Falmouth and the Groyne, which had been left running at the close of the war, were after a time discontinued.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert