greave

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 grēv

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bush; a tree; a grove. obsolete
    — she fled into that covert greave
  2. A ditch or trench. obsolete
  3. A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet. historical
    — And through the stained windows bright, / From o'er the red-tiled eaves, / The sunlight blazed with colored light / On golden helms and greaves.
  4. A bough; a branch. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave. transitive

词形变化

greaves plural greaves plural greaves plural greeve alternative greaves present,singular,third-person greaving participle,present greaved participle,past greaved past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English greve, from Old English grǣfe, grǣfa (“bush, bramble, grove, thicket, copse, brush-wood (for burning), fuel”), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“ditch, hole”).
Cognate with Scots greve, greave (“grove”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“twig”), of unknown origin, whence Old Norse grein (“branch, bough”). Closely related to Old English grāf, grāfa (“grove”). See grove.
词源 2
From Middle English greve, greyve, from Old English grǣfa, grēfa (“pit, cave, hole, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *grēbō, an ablaut variant of to *grōbō (“pit, ditch”) (whence doublet of groove) , from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with North Frisian groop (“pit, sewer, gutter”), Dutch groef (“pit, hole, gutter”), German Grube (“pit, hole”), Icelandic gröf (“pit, grave”). Also related to grave.
词源 3
From Middle English greve, grayve, from Old French greve (“shin”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Egyptian Arabic جورب (“stocking, leg cover”). Watkins suggests a connection with greve (“part in the hair”), due to the resemblance of the medial ridge to a part in the hair, from graver (“to part (the hair); engrave”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *graban (“to engrave”); if so, related to Etymology 2 above.
词源 4
Back-formation from greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”).
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