GREAVES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greaves mean? 

• GREAVES (noun)
  The noun GREAVES has 1 sense:

1. the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered

  Familiarity information: GREAVES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

crackling; greaves

Hypernyms ("greaves" is a kind of...):

residue (matter that remains after something has been removed)

 Context examples 

Then he cast off his breast-plate, thigh pieces, and greaves, while Alleyne followed his example.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would be well that you should doff camail and greaves, Sir Nigel, for, by the black rood! it is like enough that we shall have to swim for it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Greaves and knee-pieces were also of leather backed by steel, and their gauntlets and shoes were of iron plates, craftily jointed.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)