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groyne

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groyne esp US, groin [grɔɪn]
n
(Engineering / Civil Engineering) a wall or jetty built out from a riverbank or seashore to control erosion Also called spur breakwater
[origin uncertain: perhaps altered from groin]
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Noun1.groyne - a protective structure of stone or concretegroyne - a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
breakwater, jetty, seawall, bulwark, groin, mole
barrier - a structure or object that impedes free movement
Translations
groyne [grɔɪn] N → espolón m
groyne
n → Buhne f
groyne [grɔɪn] n → frangiflutti m inv
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Having been thus harassed in my thoughts, my old pilot, to whom I communicated everything, pressed me earnestly not to go by sea, but either to go by land to the Groyne, and cross over the Bay of Biscay to Rochelle, from whence it was but an easy and safe journey by land to Paris, and so to Calais and Dover; or to go up to Madrid, and so all the way by land through France.
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