Results for grave
1. To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because
graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
2. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
3. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
4. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence:
Death; destruction.
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