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| groin [ groyn ] (plural groins) |
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sea wall preventing land erosion: a structure resembling a wall built out into a river or the sea to protect the shore from erosion
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| [Late 16th century. < obsolete groin "pig's snout," via Old French< late Latin grunium< Latin grunnire "grunt"] |
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