Piece of armor worn over the shin

Usage examples of greave.

Phinn, Lord Marrick, the Vice-Chairman of the Education Committee, is to take up the office of Greave and Chief Lord of the Feoffees in the New Year.

Greave of the Feoffees, a stocky man in a loud-checked tweed suit with a face as soft and brown and wrinkled as an over-ripe russet apple.

Lord Marrick, as Greave and Chief Lord of the Feoffees, dressed in a long scarlet gown and heavy gold chain, followed the Mace Bearer and led a line of largely elderly men in dark suits and bowler hats.

By the crescent upon it, it should be the second son of old Sir Hugh, who had a bolt through his ankle at the intaking of Romorantin, he having rushed into the fray ere his squire had time to clasp his solleret to his greave.

This was his body: the gorget at his throat, the gauntlet, vambrace, couter of his powerful arms, the bulging pauldron at his shoulders, the cuisse and greave of his legs, the taloned claws of his monstrous feet, all his flesh and scale.

She came out into the torchlight, stumbling with exhaustion, her mouth scarlet from the blood of her bitten and her bare greaved legs and bare sword-blade foul with the deaths of those little horrors that swarmed the cave-mouth.

First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make and fitted with ancle-clasps of silver.

First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make, and fitted with ancle-clasps of silver.

We have marksmen in the Company who will knotch with a shaft every crevice and joint of a man-at-arm's harness, from the clasp of his bassinet to the hinge of his greave.

On her right calf she had a metal greave while her left calf was covered in a fur leg warmer.

He dressed in clean underlinen, leather, and sandal and grimaced while he replaced the greave.