greave

Etymology 1
From, from , , probably related to.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,. Compare also 🇨🇬, of unknown origin, whence 🇨🇬. Closely related to 🇨🇬,. See.

Noun

 * 1)  A bush; a tree; a grove.
 * 2)  A bough; a branch.
 * 1)  A bough; a branch.

Etymology 2
From, , from , , from , an ablaut variant of to (whence ) , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Also related to.

Noun

 * 1)  A ditch or trench.

Etymology 3
From, , from , of uncertain origin; possibly from 🇨🇬. Watkins suggests a connection with, due to the resemblance of the medial ridge to a part in the hair, from , of origin, from ; if so, related to Etymology 2 above.

Noun

 * 1) A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: наколе́нник
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: Schienbeinschutz, Schienbeinschützer, ,
 * Latin: ocrea
 * Old Irish: bróc
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: greva
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: štitnik za potkoljenice, štitnik za potkolenice
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: наголі́нники

Etymology 4
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.