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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 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

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

Richard of Waure brings an appeal against his man and reeve, Robert Thistleful, for conspiring with his enemies against his person.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

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

Railes and heathpolts, ruffs, and reeves, are excellent meat wherever they can be met with.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 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

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

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

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

A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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

With this knowledge, therefore, I spliced the eye, and made the knot as firm as possible, and then the loop was reeved through, and the thing was ready.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid

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

Parker, speaking from his office, which is decorated in white decals of rove beetles — which his lab exclusively focuses on — said it pays to explore “obscure branches of the tree of life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

One version of Bolt-ee is mounted on wheels and semi-autonomous, so that it can rove around to reach a vehicle that needs a quick hit of power.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2024

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

Her eyes rove upward and find the police officer.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

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

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

We could see some of her crew aloft reeving and stopping braces and ready to repair any damage done, working as coolly under fire as old man-of-war's men.

From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

Slops paused in his hauling and reeving to shake a fist at Solomon.

From In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller

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