greave
格雷夫,格里夫,格雷弗,格莱夫
Definitions
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Armor.
- : a piece of plate armor for the leg between the knee and the ankle, usually composed of front and back pieces.
Examples
He, Hawberk, had negotiated for and secured the greave, and now the suit was complete.
Did you continue the search so persistently without any certainty of the greave being still in existence?
And when he came he cast his spear, striking the leg below the knee, but the greave turned off the spear, so strong was it.
One of them must have gnawed on my ankle some, between the greave and the heel-plate, but he couldn't quite get through.
The legionaries began putting on their armour, fastened the greave protecting the right leg, and took up bucklers and lances.
He must surely be a bit of a bigot, who would hastily pronounce that even Greave's Spiritual Quixotte is an irreligious work.
Griff—a valley-name in east Yorkshire, probably connected with 'greave,' which is common in Derbyshire.