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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

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

In Cornish, for fun, newly married couples are appointed honorary hog reeves each year.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2010

The pretty sea swallows used to breed on the marsh, and the curious ruffs and reeves.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous

Payments and Services.—We have already had occasion to refer to the dues which were rendered by different classes of the population, and which the reeves in royal villages had to collect and superintend.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

Below the dais, and between it and the fire, was another table, at which were already gathered twelve guests, being the chief tenants of Sir Andrew and the reeves of his outlying lands.

From The Brethren by Henry Rider Haggard

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

Nigh half way up the steep bank stood our little Margaret, loosely reeved to a sunken stob, her hands clasped before her.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Preventer braces were reeved and hauled taut, tackles got upon the backstays, and everything done to keep all snug and strong.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

By the time the British had stoppered the broken shrouds, reeved preventer braces, and strengthened the splintered mizzenmast, the Spanish ship had drifted down within hailing distance.

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet

The tame ones then returned to land, and he swam after the boat to the ship, where tackle was reeved to the sail-cloth, and he was hoisted on board.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Sir James Emerson Tennent

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

In a paper published in the journal “Cell,” they break down the remarkable ability of one species of rove beetle to live among the typically combative ants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

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

Then the Eye began to rove, searching this way and that; and Frodo knew with certainty and horror that among the many things that it sought he himself was one.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The next day we were employed in preparation for sea, reeving studding-sail gear, crossing royal yards, putting on chafing gear, and taking on board our powder.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Two days after seeing the land, a boy fell from the fore-top-gallant yard, while reeving the studding-sail halyards.

From Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast by James Fenimore Cooper

Wychecombe, too, was aware that these particular halyards were new, for he had assisted in reeving them himself, only the week before.

From The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper

As if to aid the monster in his inhuman design, several pine-trees grew out horizontally from the edge of the cliff; and over the branches of these the Jarochos commenced reeving their long lazos.

From The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

After four hours of very intricate navigation, called "reeving through the pack," we reached the West Water,—a wide ocean of water without one piece of floe-ice, and very few icebergs.

From Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Sherard Osborn