engroove
verbEtymology From en- + groove.
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To fit into a groove; to channel
- The box i is engrooved into the edge of the stock a b, so that it may move freely ...1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Digitized edition, J. Brown, published 2010, page 668:
- The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water.1880, RD Blackmore, Mary Anerley, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
1 more example
- 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.1992, Anaïs Nin, Incest: From a Journal of Love, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 25: