groyne
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of groyne
C16: origin uncertain: perhaps altered from groin
Example Sentences
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The groyne replacement is part of a 17-year beach management scheme, which started in 2015, to help protect the coastline from flooding and erosion.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023
With a quick, sudden heave the summer sea, calm and gleaming, runs a little way up the side of the groyne, and again retires.
From Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies
After two or three ineffectual castings hither and thither it came to a stop, stood upright, with arms raised high, and then darted straight forward towards the groyne.
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
The moment came when the pursuer was hovering about from left to right only a few yards beyond the groyne where the runner lay in hiding.
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
As the postchaise lumbered heavily up the rough-paved groyne that led from the sands she shook from head to foot.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
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