ingroove

1. (transitive) To form a groove in.Examples: "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."; "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.)"; "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 )."transitive