Gauntlet vs Greave - What's the difference?
gauntlet | greave |
Protective armor for the hands.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 22:
(nautical) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
(archaic) Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment
Simultaneous attack from two or more sides
(figuratively) Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment
(rail) A temporary convergence of two parallel railroad tracks allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching.
A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin.
* (English Citations of "greave")
(nautical) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.
As nouns the difference between gauntlet and greave
is that gauntlet is protective armor for the hands while greave is a bush; a tree; a grove.As a verb greave is
to clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.gauntlet
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(wikipedia gauntlet)Alternative forms
* gantletEtymology 1
(etyl) "glove", also gantelet, from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The hands were defended by Gauntlets, these were sometimes of chain mail, but oftener of small plates of iron rivetted together, in imitation of the lobster's tail, so as to yield every motion of the hand, some gauntlets inclosed the whole hand, as in a box or case, others were divided into fingers, each finger consisting of eight or ten separate pieces, the inside gloved with buff leather, some of these reached no higher than the wrist, others to the elbow; the latter were stiled long armed gauntlets: many of them are to be seen in the Tower; for a representation of one of them, see plate 26, fig 6.
