groyne
/ɡrɔɪn
/(US groin)
noun
A low wall or sturdy timber barrier built out into the sea from a beach to check erosion and drifting.Four new groynes - timber planking walls running down the beach towards the water - will help trap sand and give greater protection to the base of the wall....
- Visit any coastal area and you will see defence features such as groynes, sea walls and banks.
- We're blowing all this money to build houses and ruin habitat with so-called beach renourishment and jetties, groins and seawalls.
Origin
Late 16th century: from dialect groin 'snout', from Old French groign, from late Latin grunium 'pig's snout', from Latin grunnire 'to grunt'.
Rhymes
- Uniformity, Act of
- uniformly
- uniform resource locator
- unify
- unijunction
- unilateral
- Unilateral Declaration of Independence
- unilateralism
- unilateralist
- unilaterally
- unilinear
- unilinearly
- unilingual
- unilingualism
- unilingually
- unilluminated
- unillustrated
- unilocular
- uniloculate
- unimaginable
- unimaginably
- unimaginative
- unimaginatively
- unimaginativeness
- unimagined