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# groyne

«groyne» in Mova's school dictionary: **A low wall or fence of wood, stone or concrete built out…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a groyne, groynes); US spelling groin

### meaning for a pupil

A low wall or fence of wood, stone or concrete built out from a beach into the sea to stop the sand and pebbles being washed away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groyne/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons on coasts (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand), groynes are a kind of «hard engineering» that stops longshore drift, the way waves move sand along the coast. Beaches with groynes have more sand on one side. Phrases: wooden groynes, coastal defences, longshore drift.

### examples

- Wooden groynes stretch down the beach at Brighton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groyne/#x1)
- Groynes trap sand carried by longshore drift. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groyne/#x2)
- We sat on a groyne and ate our picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groyne/#x3)
- Sand piles up on one side of each groyne. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groyne/#x4)
- The council built new groynes to protect the coast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groyne/#x5)
- In our geography test we had to label the groynes on a diagram. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groyne/#x6)

### note

British spelling: groyne. American spelling: groin, which is also the word for the top of the inside leg, so the British spelling avoids a mix-up. Rhymes with «coin». Safety: do not climb on slippery groynes when the tide is coming in.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «groyne» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/groyne/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.