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greaves, graves, n. pl.|griːvz, greɪvz|
Also 7 graives, 9 dial. groves.
[app. originally a term of the whale fisheries; ad. LG. greven pl. (whence Sw. dial. grevar, Da. grever), corresp. to OHG. griubo, griobo (MHG., G. griebe), which agrees in form with OE. gréoua (= *gréofa) ‘olla’.]
The fibrous matter or skin found in animal fat, which forms a sediment on melting and is pressed into cakes to serve as meat for dogs or hogs, fish-bait, etc.; the refuse of tallow; cracklings.
1614G. Markham Cheape & Good Husb. 97 Chandlers Graiues [printed Graines], which is the dregges and offall of rendred Tallow, as hard skinnes, kels, and fleshly lumpes. 1631E. Pellham Mirac. Perserv. Englishm. Greenland 14 Lading this other Shallop..with the Graves of the Whales that had beene there boyled this present yeare. 1673Marvell Reh. Transp. ii. Wks. II. 283 It was observed that he was wont still to put more graves than all the rest in his porridge. 1735T. Lediard Naval Hist. 521 They [had] to feed on mouldy Frittars and Greaves of Whales. 1740R. Brookes Art of Angling i. xxii. 59 Graves, to be had at the Tallow-Chandlers for a Ground-Bait. 1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1804) VI. 229 A farmer in Surrey used graves from the Tallow-Chandlers, with very great success on sandy soil. 1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxi, A cake of greaves. 1867F. Francis Angling xiv. (1880) 500 Greaves or Scratchings is the refuse skin, etc., from the tallow-melters. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Greaves, Groves, tallow-chandler's refuse. 1894Times 30 July 6/2 Roach are taking gentles, barbel lobworms, greaves, and gentles. |