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plural groins
The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region. quotations examples
The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport
The area adjoining this fold or depression. examples
(architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults examples
(euphemistic) The genitals. examples
(geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults. examples
(marine engineering) A rigid hydraulic structure built perpendicularly from an ocean shore or a river bank, interrupting water flow and limiting the movement of sediment. examples
third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined
To deliver a blow to the genitals of. examples
(architecture) To build with groins. examples
(literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate. quotations examples
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting
To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur. quotations examples
Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
Beares, that groynd continually
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 27
Alternative spelling of groyne examples