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Dave Carlson, the reeve of Emerson-Franklin, said instances of people crossing the border outside the checkpoint have dropped significantly in recent years.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

Other states followed suit, and as Judge Vanderbilt says, the "judges campaigned for judicial office in the hustings with the other candidates of the political parties from sheriff to hog reeve."

From Time Magazine Archive

I was just about to emerge from the woods and run toward our hut when I caught sight of the bailiff, Roger Kinsworthy, and the reeve, Odo Langland.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

I could fed him standing there watching me as I tried to reeve the lengths, but I knew they weren’t fitting together.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

Each hundred had its own court, and every township its assembly under the reeve.

From Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

In Cornish, for fun, newly married couples are appointed honorary hog reeves each year.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2010

Generations ago, towns appointed hog reeves — people who caught livestock that ran away — each year at a town meeting.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2010

Payments and Services.—We have already had occasion to refer to the dues which were rendered by different classes of the population, and which the reeves in royal villages had to collect and superintend.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

“Look here, Dick, at the decoys,” cried Tom running to a large wicker cage in which were four of the curious long-legged birds known as ruffs and reeves.

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

The aids of the boroughs, counties, and church had been negotiated by the Exchequer with the reeves of each town, the sheriff and shire courts of each county, and the archdeacons of each diocese.

From Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly

Thirty-one inches above the headpiece is a pulley reeved with a rope with handles on one end, ankle straps on the other.

From Time Magazine Archive

While all this was going on a deckhand had reeved a block and tackle through the end of the cargo gaff and passed it to the winch.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant

It was reeved through an iron ring that jutted from the stone.

From The Caves of Fear by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

The numeral is attached by means of two staples with leather thongs reeved through on the reverse of the plate.

From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by J. Duncan Campbell

Preventer braces were reeved and hauled taut; tackles got upon the backstays; and everything done to keep all snug and strong.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

Its species name honors Dr. Harald Schillhammer of the Natural History Museum Vienna for his extensive and outstanding contributions to rove beetle research.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

I hired an electric violinist to rove around the bathhouse and play during the event.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

In the Mournes, Mr Fisher said rove beetles and other insects "support the skylarks and the meadow pipits that come from the lowlands to nest up in the uplands during this time of year".

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

In response, Metro says it transferred pairs of security guards from elsewhere to rove the H Line, which connects downtown to Burien, “for the foreseeable future,” spokesperson Al Sanders said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

His eyes rove the cover again and stick on 1963.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

In the meantime the first officer, Mr. Block, was sending up a new topgallant yard, reeving new rigging, repairing the sails, and getting everything ataunto aloft.

From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

Wychecombe, too, was aware that these particular halyards were new, for he had assisted in reeving them himself, only the week before.

From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper

The next operation was the reeving of the ropes over the wheels of the pulley.

From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid

It was accomplished by reeving a line from hole to hole by means of the long slender pole already mentioned.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid

Fortunately, the tackles with which Mr. Leach had raised the sheers and stepped the jury-mast the previous morning were still lying on the deck, and Paul was spared the labour of reeving new ones.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper