different between gauntlet vs greave

English

Alternative forms

• gantlet

Etymology 1

From Middle English gauntelett, gantlett, a borrowing from Old French gantelet (“gauntlet worn by a knight in armor, a token of one's personality or person, and symbolizing a challenge”), diminutive of gant (“glove”), a borrowing from Frankish *want (“glove; mitten”) and reinforced by Medieval Latin wantus (“glove”) itself borrowed from the former, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove; mitten”). Cognate with Dutch want (“mitten; shroud”), German Low German Want (“shroud”), Danish vante (“mitten”), Swedish vante (“glove; mitten”), Faroese vøttur (“glove; mitten”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gônt’l?t, IPA^(key): /????nt.l?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

gauntlet (plural gauntlets)

1. Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
2. A long glove covering the wrist.
3. (nautical) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.

Derived terms

• take up the gauntlet
• throw down the gauntlet

Translations

See also

• Gauntlet (glove) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Modified, under the influence of etymology 1, from gantlope, from Swedish gatlopp (“passageway”), from Old Swedish gata (“lane”) + lopp (“course”), from löpa (“to run”)

Noun

gauntlet (plural gauntlets)

1. (archaic) Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment
2. Simultaneous attack from two or more sides
3. (figuratively) Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment
4. (rail transport) A temporary convergence of two parallel railroad tracks allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching.

Derived terms

• running the gauntlet (having to run between rows of attackers as a punishment)
• run the gauntlet (submit to a series of difficult tests)

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?v, IPA^(key): /??i?v/
• Homophone: grieve
• Rhymes: -i?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English greve, from Old English gr?fe, gr?fa (“bush, bramble, grove, thicket, copse, brush-wood (for burning), fuel”), probably related to Proto-Germanic *gr?b? (“ditch, hole”). Cognate with Scots greve, greave (“grove”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“twig”), of unknown origin, whence Old Norse grein (“branch, bough”). Closely related to Old English gr?f, gr?fa (“grove”). See grove.

Noun

greave (plural greaves)

1. (obsolete) A bush; a tree; a grove.
2. (obsolete) A bough; a branch.

Etymology 2

From Middle English greve, greyve, from Old English gr?fa, gr?fa (“pit, cave, hole, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?b? (“pit, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reb?- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with North Frisian groop (“pit, sewer, gutter”), Dutch groef (“pit, hole, gutter”), German Grube (“pit, hole”), Icelandic gröf (“pit, grave”).

Noun

greave (plural greaves)

1. (obsolete) A ditch or trench.

Etymology 3

From Middle English greve, grayve, from Old French greve (“shin”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Egyptian Arabic ????? (“stocking, leg cover”). Watkins suggests a connection with greve (“part in the hair”), due to the resemblance of the medial ridge to a part in the hair, from graver (“to part (the hair); engrave”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *graban (“to engrave”); if so, related to Etymology 2 above.

Alternative forms

• greeve

Noun

greave (plural greaves)

1. A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:greave.

Translations

Etymology 4

From greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”).

Verb

greave (third-person singular simple present greaves, present participle greaving, simple past and past participle greaved)

1. (nautical, transitive) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

See also

• greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”)

References

Anagrams

• regave