The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greeve
Greeve \Greeve\, n. See Grieve, an overseer.
Greeve
Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), Greeve \Greeve\, n. [AS. ger[=e]fa. Cf. Reeve an officer.] A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.]
Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve.
--Sir
W. Scott.
Wiktionary
greeve
Etymology 1 alt. (context UK dialectal English) A reeve; steward. n. (context UK dialectal English) A reeve; steward. Etymology 2
alt. armor for the shins, and occasionally the tops of the feet. n. armor for the shins, and occasionally the tops of the feet.
Usage examples of "greeve".
He died of an old wound in sixteen-eighty-three and it seems Greeve had him brought up to Cley to be buried.