groove
noun
a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board tongue-and-groove joint, a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
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The gaps, the theory went, were opened by small moons, less than 20 miles across, that plowed through the debris, clearing out groovelike paths.
From Time Magazine Archive
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