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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

The reeve acts as the representative of the village community, as well in regard to the lord as on public occasions.

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

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 bird’s captured by net were dunlins, knots, ruffs, reeves, red-shanks, lapwings, golden plovers, curlews, godwits, etc. 

From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter

The other six they sent ashore again, bearing letters to Castell's friends, agents, and reeves, as to the transfer of his business and the care of his lands, houses, and other properties during his absence.

From Fair Margaret by Henry Rider Haggard

The Manitoba Government declined to act on the request of the Grain Growers alone, but called a conference of municipal reeves and others interested.

From Deep Furrows by Hopkins Moorhouse

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 numeral is attached by means of two staples with leather thongs reeved through on the reverse of the plate.

From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by J. Duncan Campbell

"Did they have something with them, reeved up in a hammock—something that smelled sweet?"

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris

When time permitted he made many experiments with ropes reeved through the pulley and attached to a rifle action.

From The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy

It consists of a small line reeved back and forth through the holes in the "deadeyes," A; the ends are then seized to the standing rigging to prevent slipping.

From Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

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

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

The dormouse watched Cluny’s eye rove lazily from his family to the blazing inferno.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

In the meantime the first officer, Mr. Block, was sending up a new topgallant yard, reeving new rigging, repairing the sails, and getting everything ataunto aloft.

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

The 'Torreador's,' with envious eyes, watched us reeving off the yard ropes.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by David W. Bone

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

No human being could hold on in such a gale, far less perform the intricate task of reeving fresh halliards and wires.

From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Next, reeving one end of the rope into a running noose, he flung it over the pinnacle, and with a tug had it taut.

From I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch