grove
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Wicca
business
forestry
lifestyle
religion
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”).
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.
Inflected forms:
form: groves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: groves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: groving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: groved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: groved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small forest.
pos: noun
examples: Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.
gloss: A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: woodland
gloss: An orchard of fruit trees.
pos: noun
gloss: A place of worship.
pos: noun
gloss: A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
pos: noun
gloss: To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
The trees and shrubs are not arranged after any particular system, but are scattered or groved together in various parts of the garden.
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.
gloss: To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To plough or gouge with lines.
pos: verb
examples: 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 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.
The floor of first story and piazza to be laid with Georgia pine, in narrow courses planed, groved and tongued, and laid in the best manner.
Related words: mangrove
nemoricole
copse
firth
holt
hurst
shaw
spinney
thicket
tree
wald
wold
wood
woods
Derived words: Arnos Grove
ash grove
Beech Grove
Boxgrove
Buffalo Grove
Calder Grove
Cherry Grove
Clifton Grove
Coconut Grove
Cottage Grove
Council Grove
Downers Grove
Elk Grove
Elk Grove Village
Forest Grove
Green Grove
Grove Hill
Groveland
groveless
Grove Park
Grover
grove snail
grovy
Hazel Grove
Hunts Grove
Ida Grove
Inver Grove Heights
Ladbroke Grove
Liberty Grove
London Grove
Oak Grove
Ocean Grove
olive grove
orange grove
Palm Grove
Parish Grove
Pleasant Grove
Rich Grove
Richland Grove
Rose Grove
South Grove
Squaw Grove
undergrove
Villa Grove
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