Crossword-Solution: GREAVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Greave | n. | A grove. |
| Greave | n. | Armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural. |
| Greave | v. t. | To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “GREAVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Armor for the leg below the knee. | 1 answer |
| Leg armor | 1 answer |
| Piece of armor worn over the shin | 1 answer |
| Piece of leg armor | 1 answer |
| Shin armor that's a homophone for a synonym of "mourn" | 1 answer |
| Shin armor | 2 answers |
| ARMOUR for leg and foot | 7 answers |
| armour | 45 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GREAVE (5)
Therefore my might is more than any man's." With scornful laughter spake she: then she hurled Her second lance; but they in utter scorn Laughed now, as swiftly flew the shaft, and smote The silver greave of Aias, and was foiled Thereby, and all its fury could not scar The flesh within; for fate had ordered not That any blade of foes should taste the blood Of Aias in the bitter war.
Yet Alcon, son of Megacles battle-swift, Hard by Odysseus' right knee drave the spear Home, and about the glittering greave the blood Dark-crimson welled.
Here also were the valiant Earl of Angus, Sir Thomas Banaster with his garter over his greave, Sir Nele Loring, second cousin to Sir Nigel, and a long column of Welsh footmen who marched under the red banner of Merlin.
His smooth breastplate, his wondrous joints with their deft protection by the disks at knee and elbow and shoulder, the beautifully flexible gauntlets and sollerets, the shirt of mail and the close-fitting greave-plates were all things of joy and of beauty in his eyes.
The armourer's hammer was the keener, the quicker, the less intermittent, and yet had the most variations of time and note, as he shifted the piece on his anvil, or changed breastplate for gorget, or greave for pauldron--or it might be sword for pike-head or halbert.
Quotes with GREAVE (1)
But there was nothing. No village or town as far as her eyes could strain. Nowhere for her saviours to come from and take her to; just fields and trees and the weeping arc of the river Greave all the way to the horizon. Just like in the books, Greaveburn was all there was; building and building until streets were foundations, roofs were floors, constantly climbing away from itself. now that Abrasia saw it, her dream of escape crumbled completely like an ancient map in her fin…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).