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Definition of Groundings
1. grounding [n] - See also: grounding
Lexicographical Neighbors of Groundings
Literary usage of Groundings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pesticides in the Next Decade: The Challenges Ahead: Third National Research (1994)
"groundings account for most of the navigation-related fishing vessel causalities.
In addition, groundings are the most frequently reported fishing vessel ..."
2. R.U.S.I. and Brassey's Defence Yearbook by Royal United Services Institute Staff, Thomas Allnutt Brassey Brassey (1906)
"The gunnery is being vastly improved; but the groundings and collisions are ...
In 1904 there were no less than sixty-five collisions and groundings of ..."
3. A Handbook of Average: To which is Added a Chapter on Arbitration by Manley Hopkins (1884)
"Such groundings as the above- named are not strandings, because accident is not
an clement in ... When the tide left her she * groundings in the Suez Canal, ..."
4. The Young Lady's Book: A Manual of Amusements, Exercises, Studies, and Pursuits by Matilda Anne Planche Mackarness (1888)
"They are —plates of clear glass, designs, groundings, ... For different subjects
suitable groundings and borders must be selected, as the whole beauty of ..."
5. A Manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography by William Benham Snow (1904)
"Screw-eyes from which wires extend to the two groundings may be placed at convenient
points for these two groundings; one for grounding either pole of the ..."
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