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 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
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
A doctor of physic, a cook, a poor parson, a ploughman, a reeve, or estate agent, a manciple, and two disgraceful characters—a summoner and a pardoner—make up the total of the company.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper
In Cornish, for fun, newly married couples are appointed honorary hog reeves each year.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2010
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
At dinner, he pecks at, rather than eats, ruffs and reeves, lapwings, or anie smalle birds it may chance; but affects sweets and subtilties, and loves a cup of wine or ale, stirred with rosemary.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
Greater delicacies even than ruffs and reeves were godwits, which were fatted in like manner for the table.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
The pretty sea swallows used to breed on the marsh, and the curious ruffs and reeves.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
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
He lay upon the floor of Hooven's house, bare to the waist, bandages of adhesive tape reeved about his abdomen and shoulder.
From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris
The rudder, and great part of the false keel, were carried away; and the rudder would have been lost, but for Sir Thomas's timely exertion in getting a hawser reeved through it.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 by James Harrison
Preventer braces were reeved and hauled taut; tackles got upon the backstays; and everything done to keep all snug and strong.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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
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
I hired an electric violinist to rove around the bathhouse and play during the event.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
In the Mournes, Mr Fisher said rove beetles and other insects "support the skylarks and the meadow pipits that come from the lowlands to nest up in the uplands during this time of year".
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
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
She turns, and her blue eyes rove over Scoob’s face in a way they never have before.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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
While the Indefatigable was reeving fresh braces, the other frigates came up, having been enabled to make a shorter distance by the altered course of the combatants during the chase.
From The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth by Edward Osler
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
At the mast-head of both fore and main, men were reeving fresh halliards for the purpose of sending the aerials aloft.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The order was obeyed, and all the day was spent in plugging shot-holes, and in bending new sails or mending rent ones, and in reeving fresh running rigging.
From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston
