1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis[1], Digitized edition, J. Brown, published 2010, page 668 : The box i is engrooved into the edge of the stock a b, so that it may move freely . . . 1880, RD Blackmore, Mary Anerley[2], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006 : The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water. 1992, Anaïs Nin, Incest: From a Journal of Love[3], Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ISBN 9780151443666, page 25 : I would like sometimes to rest, to be at peace, to choose a nook, a love, and engroove myself in it — to make a final selection.