Definition of Gleaves

1. gleave [n] - See also: gleave

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleaves

gleamiest
gleaming
gleamingly
gleamings
gleams
gleamy
glean
gleanable
gleaned
gleaner
gleaners
gleaning
gleanings
gleans
gleave
gleaves (current term)
gleba
glebae
glebal
glebe
glebe-house
glebe-land
glebe house
glebeless
glebes
glebous
gleby
gled
glede
gledes

Literary usage of Gleaves

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Henry Cadman Jones, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Richard Horton Smith, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1873)
"the land in question in the cause, of which William and Ann gleaves were seised in fee-simple in right of Ann, was, in consideration of 1001. advanced to ..."

2. A History of the City of Brooklyn: Including the Old Town and Village of by Henry Reed Stiles (1869)
"Matthew gleaves is mentioned by De Voe (Historical Magazine, second series, n, 341), ... gleaves became thus employed by the government officers, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Jere Baxter, Tennessee Supreme Court (1878)
"The plaintiff obtained leave to file additional interrogations, and in answer to these, the bank, among other things, said: " I suppose he (gleaves) was, ..."

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