groyne

[ groin ]

/ grɔɪn /

noun

Nearby words

growth rate, growth ring, growth shares, growth substance, growth-onset diabetes, groyne, grozing iron, grozny, gru, grub, grub beam

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Examples from the Web for groyne

Accordingly, packet boats were hired to ply between Falmouth and the Groyne.
The History of the British Post Office|Joseph Clarence Hemmeon
This bank in its turn threatened Harwich Harbour, and a groyne of concrete had to be set up to arrest its progress.
Through East Anglia in a Motor Car|J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
Coruña, which the English then frequently called "The Groyne."
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period|Various
It was well groapt at, for I knewe him sicke of a paine in the groyne.
Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets|Various

Mr. Allan again offered to put down a groyne at his own expense, Mr. Fleming agreeing to superintend the work.
Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years|Samuel Thompson

British Dictionary definitions for groyne

groyne

esp US groin

/ (ɡrɔɪn) /

noun

a wall or jetty built out from a riverbank or seashore to control erosionAlso called: spur, breakwater

Word Origin for groyne

C16: origin uncertain: perhaps altered from groin

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Word Origin and History for groyne

groyne

"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."