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▪ I. groyne, n.|grɔɪn|
Also 9 groin, groyn.
[Of obscure origin: perh. identical with groin n.1; cf. the use of OF. groin (lit. ‘snout’) in the sense of a projection of rock, promontory.]
A framework of timber, or now sometimes a low broad wall of concrete or masonry run out into the sea, for the purpose of arresting the washed-up sand and shingle and thus raising a barrier against the encroachment of the sea.
1582Calendar State Papers (1865) 44 A groyne to be made for the defense of the pier [at Dover]. 1593–5Norden Spec. Brit., M'sex i. Prepar. 22 Greenwich..rather it is Groynewich, a towne neere or vpon the Groyne: for a Groyne it is that is made for a defence against the force of water. 1808Ann. Reg. 128 Their new groynes do not project far enough into the sea. 1872Lyell Princ. Geol. I. ii. xx. 533 Since the Point of Dungeness has advanced, forming a great natural groin, it intercepts the shingle which formerly travelled eastward, and was accumulated by artificial groins at Hythe. 1887E. J. Goodman Too Curious xvi, Where the huge timber piles of a groyne intersected a portion of the beach.
transf.1872Dixon Switzers iv. 33 A groyne of slabs and stones is thrown along the higher rim, but slantwise from the alpine scarp (as we in England groyne the sea), to turn all floods of rain and rolling earth and stones aside.
▪ II. groyne, v.|grɔɪn|
[f. prec.]
trans. a. To build groynes or breakwaters against the sea. b. To furnish with groynes or breakwaters.
1872[see groyne n. (transf.)]. 1889Sussex Daily News 4 June 3/3 The first thing necessary is to build up a protecting wall..and then groyne the beach. |