engroove

engroove

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

Anagrams

• gone over, overgone