An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
GREAVE
greave, jambeau
(noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
greave (plural greaves)
(obsolete) A bush; a tree; a grove.
(obsolete) A bough; a branch.
Etymology 2
Noun
greave (plural greaves)
(obsolete) A ditch or trench.
Etymology 3
Noun
greave (plural greaves)
A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin.
Etymology 4
Verb
greave (third-person singular simple present greaves, present participle greaving, simple past and past participle greaved)
(nautical, transitive) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.
Anagrams
• regave
Source: Wiktionary
Greave, n.
Definition: A grove. [Obs.] Spenser.
Greave, n. Etym: [OF. greees; cf. Sp. grevas.]
Definition: Armor for the leg below the knee; -- usually in the plural.
Greave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Greaved (grevd); p. pr. & vb. n. Greaving.] Etym: [From Greaves.] (Naut.)
Definition: To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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