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Tire Grooves Crossword Clue

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noun

• Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.

• A drain.

43%7 Channels on a car tire
noun

• a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

• a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

• (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

verb

• make a groove in, or provide with a groove

• hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

30%9 A term used in tire manufacturing to describe the curved shape of the tire tread that provides better traction.
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