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groyne en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɡɹɔɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English groyn (“snout”), from Old French groign, from Late Latin grunium, grunia, from Latin grunnire (“grunt like a pig”).

Meanings

1. An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.
   • Our assimilation into one another had been beautifully timed, with each little revelation of unpleasantness acting as a modest baffler, a groyne to our mutual inundation. Now all of this was going to be flooded, drenched in poisonous ichor. 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
   • Old rail and timber groynes will be erected along the beach to trap shingle moved by coastwise drift, and to rebuild the protection to the toe of the embankment. 1959 May 14, “Notes and News: Reconstruction of Sea Wall near Abergele”, in Railway Magazine, page 359:

Forms

Translations (26)

et buun (structure to prevent erosion) · fr épi (structure to prevent erosion) · pl ostroga brzegowa (structure to prevent erosion) · de Wellenbrecher (structure to prevent erosion) · de Buhne (structure to prevent erosion) · it frangiflutti (structure to prevent erosion) · cy argor (structure to prevent erosion) · nl krib (structure to prevent erosion) · bg буна (structure to prevent erosion) · ru полузапру́да (structure to prevent erosion) · gmw-cfr Buhn (structure to prevent erosion) · ru бу́на (structure to prevent erosion) · ca galop (structure to prevent erosion) · ja 水制 (structure to prevent erosion) · de Lahnung (structure to prevent erosion) · ko 방사제 (structure to prevent erosion) · es espigón (structure to prevent erosion) · nl strandhoofd (structure to prevent erosion) · da høfde (structure to prevent erosion) · fi siipipato (structure to prevent erosion) · sv hövd (structure to prevent erosion) · ca espigó (structure to prevent erosion) · de Kribbe (structure to prevent erosion) · fi suiste (structure to prevent erosion) · es escollera (structure to prevent erosion) · gmw-cfr Krepp (structure to prevent erosion)