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English
Verb
reive (third-person singular simple present reives, present participle reiving, simple past and past participle reived or reft)
- Archaic spelling of reave.
- 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, 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:
- 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.
- 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:
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Hunsrik
Etymology
From Central Franconian rieve.
Pronunciation
Verb
reive
- to rub
Further reading
- Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “reive”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch
Northern Sami
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Noun
reive
- letter (message)
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