Definition

(Naut.) 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.

Other Definitions

This word also has 2 other definitions:

GRAVE (adjective)

1. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. [Obs.] His shield grave and great. Chapman. 2. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious;...

GRAVE (noun)

An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. He bad lain in the grav...