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Reeve vs Reive - What's the difference?

reeve | reive |

As a proper noun reeve

is .

As a verb reive is

.

reeve

English

Etymology 1

Old English r?fa , an aphetism of ?er?fa.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
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  • (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.
  • (military, historical) A (l) but (l) commissioned (l) of the equivalent to (l).
  • * 1936 , The Periodical (), volumes 21–22, page 67
    • A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign'', ''Lieutenant'', ''Flight-Leader'', ''Squadron-Leader'', ''Reeve''''', ''Banneret'', ''Fourth-Ardian'', ''Third-Ardian'', ''Second-Ardian'', ''Ardian'', ''Air Marshal''. […] “' Reeve ”, perhaps, savoured a little too much of legal authority.

    Etymology 2

    Apparent alternate form of reef

    Verb

    (reev)
  • (nautical, dialect) To pass a rope through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.
  • * 1930 , William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying , Library of America, 1985, p.98:
    • "Let the rope go," he says. With his other hand he reaches down and reeves the two turns from the stanchion.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A female of the species Philomachus pugnax , a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.

    • reive

    English

    Verb

  • * 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford'', quoted in ''Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10:
    • [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.
  • * 2011 , Mark Richards, Hadrian's Wall Path: Two-way national trail description (ISBN 1849654263), page 102:
    • Spine-chilling tales of reiving raids are a legendary legacy of these violent times, when careless murder, theft and pillage were everyday professions.
  • * 2014 , Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound (ISBN 1139916262):
    • So, although many borderers regularly engaged in reiving , most were also part-time agriculturalists, raising crops such as oats and rye, as well as livestock.