grove
/ɡɹoʊv/ verb C2- To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
- To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
- To plough or gouge with lines.
He/she/it groves · Past groved · Past participle groved · -ing form groving
Verb forms
- Base form
- grove
- He/she/it
- groves
- Past
- groved
- Past participle
- groved
- -ing form
- groving
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“In Brixton Road, this morning,” it ran, “a plain gold wedding ring, found in the roadway between the ‘White Hart’ Tavern and Holland Grove.
At one o’clock it began to rain, and I met Harry Murcher—him who has the Holland Grove beat—and we stood together at the corner of Henrietta Street a-talkin’.
They went over to Orchard Slope by the short cut across the brook and up the firry hill grove.
William Bell’s birch grove tomorrow.
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