Usually means: Barrier built perpendicular to shoreline.
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  6. groyne: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. The Groyne, groyne: Wiktionary
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  11. Groyne: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  13. groyne: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  15. Groyne: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. groyne: FreeDictionary.org
  17. groyne: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  20. groyne: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. groyne: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See groynes as well.)

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noun:  An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.

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