What is the name meaning of GREAVES. Phrases containing GREAVES
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GREAVES
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North German and Scandinavian
North German and Scandinavian : status name from Middle Low German and Danish greve, equivalent to German Graf.English : variant of Greaves.
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English
English : topographic name from Old English grǣfe ‘brushwood’, ‘thicket’, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, for example in Cumbria, Lancashire, and Staffordshire.
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n. pl.
Greaves; armor for the legs.
n. pl.
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
n. pl.
The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.
v. t.
To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.