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† grovet Obs.
Also 6 grovette, 8 grovett.
[f. grove + -et1.]
A little grove.
In OE. charters a form grafet(t occurs, which is commonly read as grăfet for *græfet, and explained as ‘trench’. If it be gráfet f. gráf grove (and so identical with the present word) the suffix is not orig. diminutive.
1504Will of Gurdon (Somerset Ho.), Pastures woodes groves & grovettes. 1538Leland Itin. V. 95 In Hegge Rowes and Grovettes is meately good Plenti of Wood. 1547Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 59 Un' grovett' bosci continente ij acras. 1607Norden Surv. Dial. 240 What if a man were desirous to make a little grouet, where now no kind of such plantes doe grow? 1612Beaumont Masque Inner Temple (1613) B 3 b, A Hill..with diuers boscages and Grouets vpon the steepe or hanging grounds thereof. 1736Lewis Isle Tenet (ed. 2) 115 A grovett of Oaks. |