groyne

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An aged, partially collapsed, sunken groyne has been blamed for the easy silting of the koker which prevents it from functioning as it should.

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  • The UN Environmental Programme has called for a regional groyne covering the entire Gulf of Guinea coastline. —  Darwiniana
  • An aged, partially collapsed, sunken groyne has been blamed for the easy silting of the koker which prevents it from functioning as it should. —  Stabroek News
  • According to the notice, the koker's groyne needs rebuilding, weeds and domestic garbage are choking some side-line trenches and a new culvert was needed between Middle Walk and the Dochfour Dam. —  Stabroek News
  • When in the evening stillness he heard from his study the voices of his children, preparing their lessons, or when he listened to a song or the organ at the restaurant, or the storm howled in the chimney, suddenly everything would rise up in his memory: what had happened on the groyne, and the early morning with the mist on the mountains, and the steamer coming from Theodosia, and the kisses. —  The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories
  • And look there, Nesta, see that groyne; that very one. ' —  One of Our Conquerors — Volume 4
 

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