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

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

And of landing at the Groyne, or attempting the towne, theie would not heare by anie meanes.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

GODSON,—Walsingham sends word that the Ada. sailed from Lisbon to the Groyne the 18. of May.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles