engroove

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English

Etymology

From en- +‎ groove.

Verb

engroove (third-person singular simple present engrooves, present participle engrooving, simple past and past participle engrooved)

  1. To fit into a groove; to channel
    • 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Digitized edition, J. Brown, published 2010, page 668:
      The box i is engrooved into the edge of the stock a b, so that it may move freely ...
    • 1880, RD Blackmore, Mary Anerley, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
      The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water.
    • 1992, Anaïs Nin, Incest: From a Journal of Love, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 25:
      I would like sometimes to rest, to be at peace, to choose a nook, a love, and engroove myself in it — to make a final selection.

References

  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Supplement, Vol. XI, Page 0427, engroove

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