groin

  1. Noun.  The long narrow depression of the human body that separates the trunk from the legs.
  2. Noun.  (architecture) The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults.
  3. Noun.  (geometry) The surface formed by two such vaults.
  4. Noun.  A structure projecting from a beach to change the pattern of erosion.
  5. Verb.  (architecture) To build with groins.

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