Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GRAVE, n. [Sax. græf; G. grab; D. and Sw. graf; Dan. grav; Russ. grob, a ditch, a trench, a grave; L. scrobs. See the verb.]

1. The ditch, pit or excavated place in which a dead human body is deposited; a place for the corpse of a human being; a sepulcher.
2. A tomb.
3. Any place where the dead are reposited; a place of great slaughter or mortality. Flanders was formerly the grave of English armies. Russia proved to be the grave of the French army under Bonaparte. The tropical climates are the grave of American seamen and of British soldiers.
4. Graves, in the plural, sediment of tallow melted. [Not in use or local.]