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
Richard of Waure brings an appeal against his man and reeve, Robert Thistleful, for conspiring with his enemies against his person.
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
Fieldfares, larks, corn-crakes, quails, plovers, and ruffs and reeves, should be always cut through the breast, and served only for two helps.
From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by George Routledge
“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
Our jury is derived from an Anglo-Saxon custom; our nobility and officials are representatives of Anglo-Saxon earls and reeves.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen
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
"Did they have something with them, reeved up in a hammock—something that smelled sweet?"
From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris
Preventer braces were reeved and hauled taught; tackles got upon the backstays; and each thing done to keep all snug and strong.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Nigh half way up the steep bank stood our little Margaret, loosely reeved to a sunken stob, her hands clasped before her.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
Parker, speaking from his office, which is decorated in white decals of rove beetles — which his lab exclusively focuses on — said it pays to explore “obscure branches of the tree of life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
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
And I am a rover who can rove on Mars.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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
During the following days all hands were so busy bending new sails and reeving running gear for our turn of the Cape that there was little time for anything else.
From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains
The reeving of yard-ropes was his idea, though he disclaimed it.
From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson
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 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
