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grove definition
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This page has 19 definitions of grove with English translations in 5 languages. Grove is a noun, verb and adjective. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
English grove definition
Etymology
From Middle English grove, grave, from Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove; copse”), from Proto-West Germanic *graib, *graibō (“branch, group of branches, thicket”), from Proto-Germanic *graibaz, *graibô (“branch, fork”).[1]
Related to Old English grǣf, grǣfe (“brushwood; thicket; copse”), Old English grǣfa (“thicket”), dialectal Norwegian greive (“ram with splayed horns”), dialectal Norwegian greivlar (“ramifications of an antler”), dialectal Norwegian grivla (“to branch, branch out”), Old Norse grein (“twig, branch, limb”). More at greave.
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Noun
grove (plural groves)
- A small forest.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160:
- Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.
- An orchard of fruit trees.
- (Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
- A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
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grove (third-person singular simple present groves, present participle groving, simple past and past participle groved)
- To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
- 1841, Sapp R, “Orchard Lake”, in L. L. Hamline, editor, The Ladies Repository, Volume 1, page 165:
- It is called "Orchard Lake," from the fact, that near the centre is an island embracing an area of about fifty acres of land, well groved with different kinds of shrubbery; and near the centre of this island stand a number of aged apple-trees, planted, perhaps, a century since by the hand of some Indian.
- 1984, Queensland Botany Bulletin, Issue 3, Department of Primary Industries, page 82,
- Virtually recognizable groving occurs in some A. aneura associations in the west. Further east some diffuse groving may occur, but is difficult to recognize without the benefit of aerial photographs.
- (forestry, of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
- 1842 February 5, The Gardeners Chronicle, page 86:
- In Herefordshire, especially on the northern and eastern sides, Oak timber abounds; and in many of the woods it is usual to have felling at periods varying from sixteen to twenty years; the straightest and handsomest are left for timber, or, as it is called, groved; and they are from time to time thinned, and a regular distance kept between them. The effect produced on these groved trees is, that from being exposed to air and sun, the rapidity of their growth is increased in bulk, height, and quality; and in sixty or eighty years they become valuable timber.
- To plough or gouge with lines.
- 1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138,
- Very frequently, however, to shorten the distance to the upper nurseries, where they[the ants] have to take the eggs, they project an arch of about ten inches in length, and half an inch in breadth, groved or worked into steps, on its upper surface, to allow of a more easy passage.
- 1841, New York State Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, volume 2, page 14:
- 1823, Instinct, in "Sholto and Reuben Percy" (Thomas Byerley), The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9: Instinct—Ingenuity, page 138,
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- ^ Puppel, S. (2010); Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday. Germany: De Gruyter., p. 134-135
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Danish grove definition
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- inflection of grof:
Middle English grove definition
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Etymology
Inherited from Old English grāf, grāfa.
Pronunciation
Noun
grove (plural groves)
- grove (small forest)
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References
- “grōve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-06.
Norwegian Bokmål grove definition
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Norwegian Nynorsk grove definition
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Swedish grove definition
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