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- Groove - n. - A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.
- Groove - n. - Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.
- Groove - n. - A shaft or excavation.
- Groove - v. t. - To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
- Grooved - imp. & p. p. - of Groove
- Groover - n. - One who or that which grooves.
- Groover - n. - A miner.
- Groove - v. t. - To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.
- Scutiped - a. - Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.
- Screw - n. - A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the internal, or female screw, or, more usually, the nut.
- Rabbet - n. - A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate.
- Hemiglyph - n. - The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.
- Girdler - n. - An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae.
- Score - n. - A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
- Gorge - n. - The groove of a pulley.
- Solenogastra - n. pl. - An order of lowly organized Mollusca belonging to the Isopleura. A narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.
- Plough - n. - To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- Neck - n. - A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft.
- Swage - v. t. - To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.
- Panel - n. - A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door.
- Nicker - v. t. - The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
- Grooving - n. - The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves.
- Neck - v. t. - To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; -- used with down; as, to neck down a shaft.
- Ingroove - v. t. - To groove in; to join in or with a groove.
- Rut - n. - A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.
- Odontolcae - n. pl. - An extinct order of ostrichlike aquatic birds having teeth, which are set in a groove in the jaw. It includes Hesperornis, and allied genera. See Hesperornis.
- Gonidium - n. - A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.
- Bull's-eye - n. - A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.
- Gouge - n. - The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
- Spline - n. - A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece.
- Croze - n. - A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.
- Schindylesis - n. - A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.