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groins, plural;
  1. A low wall or sturdy timber barrier built out into the sea from a beach to check erosion and drifting

  1. the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals
  2. build with groins; "The ceiling was groined"
  3. a curved edge formed by two intersecting vaults
  4. breakwater: a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
  5. In human anatomy, the groin areas are the two at the junction of the torso with the legs, on either side of the pubic area. A pulled groin muscle usually refers to a painful injury sustained by straining the hip adduction muscles.
  6. This is a list of Dwarves from J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth.
  7. The long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs; The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults; The surface formed by two such vaults; A structure projecting from a beach to change the pattern of erosion; To build with groins
  8. (Groined) Roof with sharp edges at intersection of cross-vaults.
  9. (Groins) Artificial structures that project into the ocean from the shore. They block longshore transportation of sediment and usually are intended to trap sand and prevent its loss from a beach.*
  10. A structure intended to impede or resist movements of sand adjacent to seas or lakes.
  11. a shore-protection structure that projects away from shore, usually made of rocks, wood pilings, or sheet metal.
  12. area on side of body, at the base of leg. [see diagram].
  13. a rigid structure built more or less perpendicular to the beach for the purpose of trapping sand for the beach
  14. A shore-protection structure (built usually to trap littoral drift or retard erosion of the shore). It is narrow in width (measured parallel to the shore) and its length may vary from tens to hundreds of meters (extending from a point landward of the shoreline out into the water). ...
  15. area along the contact or intersection of the face of a dam with the abutments.
  16. a right angle intersection of two cylindrical vaults of the same height, based on free-standing reliance on the corners.
  17. A barrier-type structure extending from the backshore into the water across a beach. The purpose of a groin is to interrupt sediment movement along the shore.
  18. a solid structure built at an angle from a shore prevent erosion from currents, tides and waves, or to trap sand
  19. (1) In architecture, a ridge or curved line formed at the junction of two intersecting vaults. (2) A structure built outward from a shore into water to direct erosion or to protect against it.
  20. a wall built out from a river bank to check scour
  21. Sharp edge at the meeting of two compartments (cells) of a groin-vault.
  22. The ridge at the intersection of two vaults. A groined vault.