groyne

[groin]

noun

groin(def 4).

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Historical Examples of groyne

Coruña, which the English then frequently called "The Groyne."
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period
Various
The Grunye is probably Coruna, called by sailors the Groyne.
The Bruce
John Barbour
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
Coruña stands on a peninsula, having on one side the sea, and on the other the celebrated bay, generally called the Groyne.
The Bible in Spain
George Borrow

British Dictionary definitions for groyne

groyne

esp US groin

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

"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."