Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. A (usually wooden) structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See groin.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
Etymologies
- From Old French groign, from Late Latin grunium, grunia, from Medieval Latin grunnium ("snout"), from Latin grunnire ("grunt like a pig"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A wrong right: the zebra crossing in Dulwich A sign on Frington beach in Essex which should say 'groyne”
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“Unfortunately, this also reduces sand replenishment on the downdrift side, necessitating the construction of another groyne.”
“The officer, always thinly clad (both through the state of his wardrobe and his dread of effeminate comfort), settled his bony shoulders against the rough stonework, and his heels upon a groyne, and gave his subordinate a nod, which meant, “Make no fuss, but out with it.””
“The problem was that rather than offer shelter from the wind the groyne was faciltating a sandstorm around the whole area.”
“In addition, concrete blocks were made, allowed to remain in moist sand for three months, and were then placed in the form of a groyne in the sea between high and low-water mark.”
“Ocean, and at Degerhamm on the Baltic, where the water is only one-seventh as salt as the North Sea, while the concrete blocks were built up in the form of a breakwater or groyne at Thyboron on the west coast of Jutland.”
“There, as if really unable to get up again, he remained crouching under the groyne, looking up in an attitude of painful anxiety.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Owing to the roughness of the sea, the steamer arrived late, after the sun had set, and it was a long time turning about before it reached the groyne.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘groyne’.
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phrontistery - g
from phrontistery.info
gynaecology, gynaecomania, gyromancy, gyrograph, gyve, gyrus, gyron, gynaecocracy, gyrose, gynics, gutturotetany, gymnophobia and 439 more...
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AWESOME WORDS!!!!!!!!
I am not a very good speller am i?
cloudey, treeish, cadavvy, asparagussy, stinkey, shadenfreude, floccinaucinihili..., platoun, spikvia, teh forest very m..., definately, apostrophe's and 174 more...
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Words that sound dirty but aren't.
When you want to be pedantic AND childish.
titular, masticate, condiment, titmouse, penal, formication, social intercourse, assassination, cacophony, lucubrate, rectify, banal and 131 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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The Bucolic Abattoir
Words which, when spoken, suggest something other than their real meaning.
bucolic, fungible, brouhaha, narthex, restive, inflammable, invaluable, raze, pulchritude, noisome, fatuous, terrific and 21 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
cicurate, circumforaneous, codger, comiconomenclaturist, constable, contradistinction, contraindicated, counterpane, coxcomb, decalcomania, decanal, decoction and 307 more...
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Hey! L...
for the same
ichthyarchy, thalassic, nip-cheese, cerement, manavalins, rockweed, polder, semipalmate, blue peter, curragh, crowfoot, cat and 158 more...
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vocabulary
verisimilitude, pendulate, moxie, whimper, nary, stevedore, hubris, prodigious, super-injunction, injunction, lashings, fennel and 202 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, G
grocer, gabanergic, gabardine, gabbro, gaffe, gneiss, grapple, grosgrain, grommet, gratify, gossamer, goofy and 194 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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Tickles my humerus
I find these to be inherently funny.
cow tipping, bumblebee, homoscedasticity, seattle, wagga wagga, booby, pants, guacamole, poodle, fanny pack, nincompoop, svenborgia and 161 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Gigglesomes
Words that make me giggle.
sackbut, beshrew, hubbub, futz, tchotchke, oolong, newt, dingo, squishy, fjord, squirt, dangler and 107 more...
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Almost Dirty Words
Words that seem nasty, but aren't. Don't like it? Well... you're full of cockles.
bagasse, nosegay, jaculate, titmouse, titular, niggardly, masticate, angina, philatelist, fallacious, Uranus, rectory and 69 more...
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mrming's Words
banjaxed, antimacassar, feck, horsebox, cadge, hoon, minky, boon, groyne, voxel
Tweets
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fbharjo that wood be!? Aug 2, 2012
chained_bear "The bricks curved up from the floor in groynes, making arches all along both sides of the corridors. Storage alcoves and cells. Above the groynes, though, ran sturdy beams made of eight-inch pine. Over that, thick planking—and above the planks, the layer of bricks that formed the floor of the warehouse."
—Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn (NY: Dell, 1997), 997 Jan 20, 2010
bilby *waves wand with a flourish* Jan 16, 2009
chained_bear ... really?
*suspects a trick* Jan 16, 2009