Greave

Word GREAVE
Character 6
Hyphenation greave
Pronunciations /ɡɹiːv/

Definitions and meanings of "Greave"

What do we mean by greave?

A piece of armor worn below the knee to protect the front of the leg. noun

A bush; a tree; a grove. noun

A bough; a branch. noun

A ditch or trench. noun

See greeve. noun

See grave.

Armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural. noun

To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave. transitive verb

A grove. noun

A ditch or trench. noun

A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin. noun

A bush; a tree; a grove. noun

A bough; a branch. noun

To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave. verb

Armor plate that protects legs below the knee noun

A bush; a tree; a grove.

A bough; a branch.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Greave

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The word "greave" in example sentences

Found in a partly obscured vertical column of text at the top of the page was STINK the T being concealed as part of the fishhook curve of the lowercase g from the misspelled phrase at the top of the map, The greave is a wittnesd. ❋ WARREN GETLER (2003)

This, paired with a second decoded word TRAIL whose letters derived from The greave is a wittnesd and a floating L, had given him the Cattle Trail, or “Chisholm Trail.” ❋ WARREN GETLER (2003)

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Harold Carmichael's helmet will be on display with a gladiator helmet and four original pieces from the gladiator barracks of an amphitheater in Pompeii - a 'greave' (shin guard), two spearheads, and a dagger. " ❋ Unknown (2010)

Betting the knight, his money on the armor, the intricate chain mail like wire net or metal scrim, being's effulgent Maginot line, his stake on the weighted mace and plate mittens, on the hinged couters and poleyns, on vambrace and cuisee and greave, banging the breast-plate and all the jewelry of battle for timbre and pitch like a jerk slamming doors and kicking tires in a used car lot. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A passage such as this one is much more interested in setting up Elkin's signature lyric rhythms and, in this case, doling out strange and, in context, goofy words -- "vambrace and cuisee and greave" -- than in establishing Elkin's ability to dispense "some lovely little selection of words." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cyril, a particularly adept greave maker, worked there. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Close proximity of olive branch and greave (peace and war). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The arm itself,164 it seems to us, will better be protected by a piece like a greave stretched over it than bound up with the corselet. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The narrator chooses to let his son greave by rescuing a baby pumpkin. ❋ Aaron M. Wilson (2007)

He knees with his poleyn, kicks out with his greave. ❋ Tanita Davis (2007)

It should be crystal clear to the world at large that the regime of Kim Jong-Il is not to be trusted, and is, in fact, a greave danger to the safety of not just the Korean Peninsula, but of the entire world. ❋ Unknown (2003)

All three names—Beaver, Wolf and STINK or STINKING, if one includes another I and an N in an apparent KIN character-combination, as well as the connected lowercase g from greave—referred to local Indian Territory creeks southwest of Fort Arbuckle! ❋ WARREN GETLER (2003)

Aydrian smirked at him, then kicked at the assistant, who was stubbornly trying to come back and fit the greave once more. ❋ Salvatore, R. A., 1959- (2001)

The greave, and the dart, and the warrior's heart in its sevenfold casing of tough bull-hide. ❋ Unknown (2000)

He wore one greave, an arm protector, and a carved, rectangular shield. ❋ Davis, Lindsey (1998)

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