groyningn.
/ˈɡrɔɪnɪŋ/ The building of groynes; an arrangement or system of groynes.
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Groining, a peculiar mode of submarine embankment; a quay run out transversely to the shore.
1889 Sussex Daily News 4 June 3/3 Wherever groyning stopped it ceased to have any protecting influence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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