Usually means: Armor piece covering the shin.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. greave: Merriam-Webster
  2. greave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. greave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. greave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. greave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Greave, greave: Wordnik
  7. greave: Wiktionary
  8. greave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. greave: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Greave, greave: Dictionary.com
  11. Greave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Greave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. greave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. greave: Rhymezone
  15. Greave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. greave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. greave: FreeDictionary.org
  18. greave: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. greave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. greave: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. greave: Global Glossary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. greave: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. greave: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (greave)

noun:  (obsolete) A bush; a tree; a grove.
noun:  (obsolete) A bough; a branch.
noun:  (obsolete) A ditch or trench.
noun:  A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

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