groyne

British  

/ ɡrɔɪn /

noun

1. Also called: spur.   breakwater.  a wall or jetty built out from a riverbank or seashore to control erosion

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Etymology

Origin of groyne

C16: origin uncertain: perhaps altered from _groin

Example Sentences

The groyne replacement is part of a 17-year beach management scheme, which started in 2015, to help protect the coastline from flooding and erosion.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2023

This bank in its turn threatened Harwich Harbour, and a groyne of concrete had to be set up to arrest its progress.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)

In addition, concrete blocks were made, allowed to remain in moist sand for three months, and were then placed in the form of a groyne in the sea between high and low-water mark.

From The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns by Adams, Henry C.

As the postchaise lumbered heavily up the rough-paved groyne that led from the sands she shook from head to foot.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

Thus it went: a pause—a gathering of sound like the race of an incoming wave; then the high-flung heads of breakers spouting white up the face of a groyne.

From France at War On the Frontier of Civilization by Kipling, Rudyard