(n.) Armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Wembley England fielded: Springett; Armfield, McNeil; Robson, Swan, Flowers; Douglas, Greaves, Smith, Haynes, Charlton.
(2) These things happen, it all comes together and a team suddenly starts purring; we hit five in about 10 minutes and, with Jimmy [Greaves] in that groove, we'd have beaten any team anywhere.
(3) Mark Greaves, campaigns director of the School Exclusion Project, said: “This new test gives headteachers far too much discretion.
(4) England have now put together five clean sheets for the first time since 2006 and Rooney might have pulled level with Greaves if he had been able to beat Pareiko for a second time when he ran clear in the closing moments.
(5) He wrote it himself, starting with Jimmy Greaves's 266 at the top.
(6) Only minor support is noted for the neurofacial torsion model of Greaves (J. Zool.
(7) Chelsea's hot shots Player (Goals) Bobby Tambling (202) Kerry Dixon (193) Roy Bentley (150) Peter Osgood (150) Frank Lampard (143) Jimmy Greaves (132) George Mills (123) Didier Drogba (113) George Hilsdon (107) Barry Bridges (93)
(8) That’s when everything comes together – innovation, customer insight, creativity, communications and sales – and you get to demonstrate how these different elements work together, to create value and growth for a business,” says Gemma Greaves, MD of the Marketing Society, a networking club for marketing directors.
(9) Tony Greaves Liberal Democrat, House of Lords • The recent Labour party conference was dominated by attempts to rebrand Jim Murphy ( Election 2015, 7 April ).
(10) RSA director David Greaves said: "Bad weather in the run-up to Christmas will have a major impact on the UK's economy and could lead to significant losses for already struggling businesses."
(11) A further possible explanation, related to the geographical variation in the reprocessing of greaves to produce meat and bone meal, was identified for the geographical variation in the incidence of BSE.
(12) Rat and human thymus, like sheep thymus (Narasimhan, Hay, Greaves & Murray (1976) Biochim, Biophys.
(13) Aggregation-inhibiting protein (AIP: Curtis & Greaves, 1965), which diminishes the adhesiveness of cells, particularly at low temperatures, is identified in the present paper as phospholipase A2 (EC.
(14) This GPS III launch services contract award achieves a balance between mission success, meeting operational needs, lowering launch costs, and reintroducing competition for national security space missions,” said Lieutenant General Samuel Greaves, who heads the air force’s Space and Missile Systems Centre.
(15) According to Greaves, this increase is the result of a new type of leukemia, which was first seen in Britain between 1920 and 1940.
(16) The truth seems to be that Haffey put his afternoon's experience down solely to the commanding resplendence of Haynes and his artful lieutenant Jimmy Greaves, who scored a hat-trick.
(17) Rooney’s second-half winner in Tallinn has put him within one goal of equalling Jimmy Greaves’s total of 44 for the national team and six off Sir Bobby Charlton’s all-time record of 49, and he will reach his century of appearances against Slovenia.
(18) "We believe that all monuments should be in good taste and consistent with community standards," Greaves wrote in letter to state officials.
(19) "He's helping a satanic agenda grow more than any of us possibly could," Greaves said.
(20) "With 332 goals, he is by far Derby's all-time top scorer and only Jimmy Greaves has scored more goals in the English top flight.
Ochrea
Definition:
(n.) A greave or legging.
(n.) A kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem.