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Reave vs Greave - What's the difference?

reave | greave |

As verbs the difference between reave and greave

is that reave is (archaic) to plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove or reave can be (archaic) to split, tear, break apart while greave is (nautical|transitive) to clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

As a noun greave is

(obsolete) a bush; a tree; a grove or greave can be (obsolete) a ditch or trench or greave can be a piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin.

reave

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) reven, from (etyl) 'to roughen', Sanskrit (term) 'to make suffer'). See (m) and (m).

Alternative forms

* reive

Verb

  • (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
  • *
  • * 1997 , Lawrence R. Schehr, Rendering French Realism (ISBN 0804780161), page 18:
    • And I for one am not convinced of the innocence of the model: it is as if we let a criminal make up the law as he or she ambles along, reaving right and left.
    Derived terms
    * border reivers
    Related terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of rive by confusion with the above.

    Verb

  • (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    greave

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) greve, from (etyl) . See (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A bush; a tree; a grove.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) A bough; a branch.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) greve, greyve, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A ditch or trench.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) greve, grayve, from (etyl) , of unknown origin.

    Alternative forms

    * greeve

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin.
    • * (English Citations of "greave")

    Etymology 4

    From greaves, animal fat.

    Verb

    (greav)
  • (nautical) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

    • Anagrams

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