Reeved vs Reived - What's the difference?
reeved | reived |
(reeve)
(nautical) Of a rope, passed through a hole, ring or pulley.
(reive)
* 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:
* 2011 , Mark Richards, Hadrian's Wall Path: Two-way national trail description (ISBN 1849654263), page 102:
* 2014 , Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound (ISBN 1139916262):
As verbs the difference between reeved and reived
is that reeved is past tense of reeve while reived is past tense of reive.As an adjective reeved
is of a rope, passed through a hole, ring or pulley.reeved
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- [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.
- Spine-chilling tales of reiving raids are a legendary legacy of these violent times, when careless murder, theft and pillage were everyday professions.
- 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.