English Explanatory Dictionary

greaves

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The unmeltable residue left after animal fat has been rendered.
noun
  1. plural of greave
name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Pronunciation

/ɡɹivz/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-greaves.wav

Word forms

greaves Greaveses

Etymology

From Low German (compare German Low German Greev, Greve (“greaves”)), from Middle Low German grêve, from Old Saxon *griovo, from Proto-West Germanic *greubō (“roughage, brushwood, kindling”), perhaps related to *grubaz (“rough, coarse”), the root of German Griebe (“greaves, crackling”). Possibly related to gruff. Also compare Old High German grob (“coarse”) (modern German grob).

Related words

graves greven gribenes grave greave
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