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Grove
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- 1 A habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a grove.
- 2 Any of several villages in England.; A hamlet in Slapton parish, Buckinghamshire (OS grid ref SP9192).
- 3 Any of several villages in England.; A village in Portland parish, Dorset (OS grid ref SY6972).
- 4 Any of several villages in England.; A hamlet in Yarkhill parish, Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO6144).
- 5 Any of several villages in England.; A hamlet in Wickhambreaux parish, Canterbury district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2361).
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- 6 Any of several villages in England.; A small village and civil parish (served by Headon cum Upton, Grove and Stokeham Parish Council) in Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire (OS grid ref SK7379).
- 7 Any of several villages in England.; A large village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU4090).
- 8 A suburb of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9800).
- 9 A place in the United States:; A town in Allegany County, New York.
- 10 A place in the United States:; A city in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
- 11 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in James City County, Virginia.
- 12 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
- 13 A place in the United States:; A number of townships, in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, listed under Grove Township.
- 14 A municipality in Lauenburg district, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- 15 A rural locality in Huon Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
- 1 A small forest.
"Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away."
- 2 garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth wordnet
- 3 A small forest with minimal undergrowth.
"Near-synonym: woodland"
- 4 a small growth of trees without underbrush wordnet
- 5 An orchard of fruit trees.
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- 6 A place of worship.
- 7 A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
- 1 To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
"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."
- 2 To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
"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."
- 3 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 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."
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.
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.
* As an English surname, from the noun grove. * As a French surname, Americanized from Le Groux, Le Greux, reduced from Gréoul, of Germanic origin, from *grēduz (“hunger”) + *wulfaz (“wolf”). * As a north German surname, from the Low German noun Graf (“ditch, grave”) (see grave). Also a Dutch and Low German form of Grub. * As a German surname, variant of Graf.
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