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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:
- 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.
Anagrams
Hunsrik
Etymology
From Central Franconian rieve.
Pronunciation
Verb
reive
- to rub
Further reading
Northern Sami
Etymology
Borrowed from Norwegian brev, Swedish brev.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈrejːve/
Noun
reive
- letter (message)
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland