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Definition of Groins
1. groin [v] - See also: groin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Groins
Literary usage of Groins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine, William J. Millar (1907)
"groins.—It has been found that low groins are more suitable for giving stability
... Low groins, having rows of posts placed at right angles to the line of ..."
2. The Rudiments of Civil Engineering by Henry Law, George Rowdon Burnell (1884)
"The inclination of this fore- shore was about 1 in 25, whilst at the bottom of
the banks to the southward, where there were no groins, the inclination was 1 ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"... and bent at the groins at an angle of about 30 degrees. The abdominal arch
was well padded, and the whole apparatus, enveloped with roller bandages, ..."
4. The Rudiments of Civil Engineering by Henry Law, George Rowdon Burnell (1881)
"The inclination of this foreshore was about 1 in 25, whilst at the bottom of the
banks to the southward, where there were no groins, the inclination was 1 ..."
5. An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering: For the Use of Cadets of the by Dennis Hart Mahan (1867)
"groins. Constructions, termed groins, are used whenever it becomes necessary to
check the effect of the current along the shore, and cause deposites to be ..."
6. Wrongs and Their Remedies: A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Francis Stafford Pipe Wolferstan, James M. Dudley, Edwin Baylies (1876)
"236 Injuries to land from the erection of groins, sea-walls, and defences against
tides and currents.—Every proprietor of land exposed to the inroads of the ..."
7. A Rudimentary Treatise on Masonry and Stonecutting: In which the Principles by Edward Dobson (1849)
"The structure of these early vaults is highly domical, the curvature of the groins
being such as to throw their intersection much higher than the summit of ..."
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