ingroove

English

Etymology

in- +‎ groove

Verb

ingroove (third-person singular simple present ingrooves, present participle ingrooving, simple past and past participle ingrooved)

1. (transitive) To form a groove in.
   • 1842, The American Eclectic:

     The fine sand, the cylindrical stones of the gravel-bed, perhaps also the compact andd tough ice itself, polish the angular crystals, grind the polished surfaces, and so powerful is the pressure, by which these scratches are ingrooved, that even the quartz-veins of the rocks are not excempt from them.

   • 1896, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, page 776:

     I think that the girder rail, the ordinaray pattern of girder rail, an ingrooved rail —I have forgotten the technical term, but it is a rail in that shape—( witness draws diagram on piece of paper.)

   • 1992, Narodni muzej--Beograd, Zbornik radova - Volume 14, page 223:

     The ornaments were ingrooved all over the dued blue shirtlet and are constituted of straight and curved grooves, transversal incisions, plinted sloped punctures on the calote of the armour, that are sporadically flaked ( T. I , 1a : T. II . 1a ).

2. To connect or fit together by fitting into a groove; to slot in.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”, in Poems. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     So let the change which comes be free
     To ingroove itself with that, which flies

   • 1876, Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, Forty Years Since; Or, Italy and Rome, page 161:

     I have yet to observe the modes in which careful administration will strive to ingroove old with new, in law and order, and the civil acts and industries which make a nation's life honourable and lovely.

   • 1917, American Academy of Astrologians, Year Book, page 162:

     Now imagine—for greater perspicuity—the Microcosm as a nether wheel consisting of 360 interstices (degrees), the revolutions of which ingroove themselves with twin projections from the Great Mechanism, thus effecting contactual points of attraction that resolve themselves into channels through which specific influences from the Macrocosm descend or are drawn into the reservoirs of cognate effluences awaiting them in the minutum mundum, or lesser world.

   • 1917, Alexander Macbain, Celtic Mythology and Religion, page 27:

     While it cannot be denied that many tales have premeated from one nation to another, this will by no means account for the similarities of myths among two nations or more, in whose language and customs these myths are so deeply embedded and ingrooved that we should have to say the language too was borrowed.

   • 2013, O. Métais, ‎ Marcel Lesieur, Turbulence and Coherent Structures, page 79:

     The rake is built of a set of up to 24 individual subminiature probes ingrooved in the thickness of a printed circuit board.