groining

Verb (1)

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
   • In the scrum he somehow got groined.
2. To build or furnish with a groin or groins.
   • The part of the village in which I resided was a grove of cocoa-nut trees, and at night, when the dead leaves were sometimes collected together and burnt, the effect was most magnificent - the tall stems, the fine crowns of foliage, and the immense fruit-clusters, being brilliantly illuminated...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 50
3. (literary, transitive) To hollow out; to excavate.
   • Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.1918, Wilfred Owen, Strange Meeting

Verb (2)

groin (third-person singular simple present groins, present participle groining, simple past and past participle groined)

1. To grunt; to growl; to snarl; to murmur.
   • Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.

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