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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

Of the public duties of the reeve we have had occasion to speak.

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

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 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 Moorhouse, Hopkins

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

Gone are ruffs and reeves, spoonbills, bitterns, avosets; the very snipe, one hears, disdains to breed. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles

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 Campbell, J. Duncan

"Have halliards reeved and run it up, Hazzard," said Captain Barrington, who came up at this moment, "the lads have certainly made a clean sweep."

From The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic by Goldfrap, John Henry

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 Dana, Richard Henry

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 Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt)

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

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

He’ll hear piano music draining down through the upper stories and cock his head, and then he’ll rove the sixth floor like a slavering demon.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The hole in the cascabel for reeving a breeching has been purposely omitted in howitzers, as hitherto the use of a breeching has not been found necessary.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

Dave himself helped with weighting what was intended for the lower edge of the patch, and with reeving in ropes at the sides and top.

From Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

This is accomplished by reeving the slack of each chain over two fixed sets of multiple sheaves.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 by Various

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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 Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)