reeve
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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 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
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
In exceptional cases the lord nominates the reeve, although he still remains the chief representative of village interests and the chief collector of services.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
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
In Cornish, for fun, newly married couples are appointed honorary hog reeves each year.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2010
The bird’s captured by net were dunlins, knots, ruffs, reeves, red-shanks, lapwings, golden plovers, curlews, godwits, etc.
From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter
In polar voyaging, following up serpentine channels in the ice, till the vessel reaches open water, or reeves the pack.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
At dinner, he pecks at, rather than eats, ruffs and reeves, lapwings, or anie smalle birds it may chance; but affects sweets and subtilties, and loves a cup of wine or ale, stirred with rosemary.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
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
Little Andy Bowles made the woods behind them echo with the stirring call of "assembly," and halliards were reeved on a previously cut pole, about fifteen feet in height.
From The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by John Henry Goldfrap
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
The rudder, and great part of the false keel, were carried away; and the rudder would have been lost, but for Sir Thomas's timely exertion in getting a hawser reeved through it.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 by James Harrison
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
One version of Bolt-ee is mounted on wheels and semi-autonomous, so that it can rove around to reach a vehicle that needs a quick hit of power.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024
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
He’ll hear piano music draining down through the upper stories and cock his head, and then he’ll rove the sixth floor like a slavering demon.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Two days after seeing the land, a boy fell from the fore-top-gallant yard, while reeving the studding-sail halyards.
From Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast by James Fenimore Cooper
Dave himself helped with weighting what was intended for the lower edge of the patch, and with reeving in ropes at the sides and top.
From Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
The hole in the cascabel for reeving a breeching has been purposely omitted in howitzers, as hitherto the use of a breeching has not been found necessary.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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
The 'Torreador's,' with envious eyes, watched us reeving off the yard ropes.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone
