OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 25896

groyne

/ɡɹɔɪn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escollera • espigón
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 o…
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