Usually means: Armor protecting legs below knees.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word greaves:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. greaves: Merriam-Webster
  2. greaves: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. greaves: Collins English Dictionary
  4. greaves: Vocabulary.com
  5. Greaves, greaves: Wordnik
  6. Greaves, greaves: Wiktionary
  7. greaves: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. greaves: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. greaves: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Greaves, Greaves, greaves: Dictionary.com
  11. greaves: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Greaves (crater), Greaves (food), Greaves (surname), Greaves: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Greaves: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. greaves: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. greaves: Rhymezone
  16. Greaves: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. greaves: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Greaves: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  19. Greaves: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. greaves: FreeDictionary.org
  21. greaves: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. greaves: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. greaves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. greaves: Medical dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Greaves: Easton Bible
  2. Greaves: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. GREAVES: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

(Note: See greavess as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Greaves)

noun:  The unmeltable residue left after animal fat has been rendered.
noun:  A surname from Old English.

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