ingroove

Verb

ingroove (third-person singular simple present ingrooves, present participle ingrooving, simple past and past participle ingrooved)

1. (transitive) To form a groove in.
   • The fine sand, the cylindrical stones of the gravel-bed, perhaps also the compact andd tough ice itself, polish the angular crystals, grind the polished surfaces, and so powerful is the pressure, by which these scratches are ingrooved, that even the quartz-veins of the rocks are not excempt from...1842, The American Eclectic
   • I think that the girder rail, the ordinaray pattern of girder rail, an ingrooved rail —I have forgotten the technical term, but it is a rail in that shape—( witness draws diagram on piece of paper.)1896, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 776
2. To connect or fit together by fitting into a groove; to slot in.
   • So let the change which comes be free
     To ingroove itself with that, which flies1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
   • I have yet to observe the modes in which careful administration will strive to ingroove old with new, in law and order, and the civil acts and industries which make a nation's life honourable and lovely.1876, Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, Forty Years Since; Or, Italy and Rome, page 161