Greaves

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  • noun plural. The unmelted residue left after animal fat has been rendered.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See graves.
  • Armor, made of metal, and lined with some soft substance, worn to protect the front of the leg below the knee.
  • Boots; buskins.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun plural. The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.
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  • noun. The unmeltable residue left after animal fat has been rendered.
  • noun. Plural form of greave.
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  • noun. the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered
    • Word Usage
    "[Page 164] 'Tarena; but for "greaves," wearing no leg-armor themselves, they had no synonym."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    residue  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Eves  Steves  achieves  believes  cleaves  
    variant
    Graves  cracklings  
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