groyne
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- groin (US)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English groyn (“snout”), from Old French groign, from Late Latin grunium, grunia, from Latin grunnire (“grunt like a pig”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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groyne (plural groynes)
- An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.
- 1959 May, “Notes and News: Reconstruction of Sea Wall near Abergele”, in Railway Magazine, page 359:
- Old rail and timber groynes will be erected along the beach to trap shingle moved by coastwise drift, and to rebuild the protection to the toe of the embankment.
- 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
- Our assimilation into one another had been beautifully timed, with each little revelation of unpleasantness acting as a modest baffler, a groyne to our mutual inundation. Now all of this was going to be flooded, drenched in poisonous ichor.
Translations
[edit]structure to prevent erosion
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]groyne
- alternative form of groyn
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]groyne
- alternative form of groynen
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