Groining is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GROINING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a ribbed effect on a vault
• the intersection of two vaults.
• the construction of groined vaults.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to build with intersecting arches

Words related to GROINING

groin6 groined9 groins7

Words that contain GROINING

groinings11

How to use GROINING in a sentence

• The work is of fifteenth-century design, the interior of the porch consisting of delicately wrought fan-tracery groining.
• In the roof two thin arches of the groining remain, marvellously.
• The kitchen is still roofed in, although it has lost its stone groining.
• Vast trunks curving outwards to the roots, and expanding again at the branches, stood like enormous columns, striking out their groining boughs, with the dark vaulting of a crypt.
• The groining with cusped panels and numerous bosses has escaped restoration.
• The wooden groining of the tower is curious, and the base of the walls show the existence of a former building that lacked the present aisles.
• There are also remains of groining like that of the aisle.
• The inroads of the sea at Claycastle are at length being successfully encountered by the Case groining system, which has been found so efficient elsewhere.
• They are in detail more complicated than those of earlier styles, and in plain as distinguished from fan-tracery vaulting the groining ribs are more numerous.
• The east wall is in the best preservation, and is certainly entirely Norman with the exception of the groining.
• The groining, although incongruous, is still beautiful, and does not irritate in the same way as Wyatt’s abominations in the nave.
• The delicate groining of the roof, the foliage, and the panelling will be generally admired.
• In the side-aisles there is no groining, but only cross vaulting.
• A light groining sprang from six stout columns, and hung down in two rich pendants from the centre of the vault.

Similar words containing GROIN without suffix ing

groin6 groins7 groined9 ligroin8 ligroine9 ligroins9 groinings11 ligroines10 agroindustry17 agroindustrial16 agroindustries16

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