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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

Before the ealdorman of the shire, and the gerefa or reeve, was Egwina taken.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison

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

“Look here, Dick, at the decoys,” cried Tom running to a large wicker cage in which were four of the curious long-legged birds known as ruffs and reeves.

From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

The aids of the boroughs, counties, and church had been negotiated by the Exchequer with the reeves of each town, the sheriff and shire courts of each county, and the archdeacons of each diocese.

From Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly

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

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

A hammock aboard ship is of canvas, seven feet long, with holes a few inches apart at each end, through which are reeved pieces of strong cord.

From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Russell Doubleday

Little Andy Bowles made the woods behind them echo with the stirring call of "assembly," and halliards were reeved on a previously cut pole, about fifteen feet in height.

From The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by John Henry Goldfrap

Ropes were reeved through pulleys in the ceiling, for raising the wire-ball device to permit entrance.

From The Affair of the Brains by Anthony Gilmore

While all this was going on a deckhand had reeved a block and tackle through the end of the cargo gaff and passed it to the winch.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant

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

His eyes rove the cover again and stick on 1963.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone

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

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

Fortunately, the tackles with which Mr. Leach had raised the sheers and stepped the jury-mast the previous morning were still lying on the deck, and Paul was spared the labour of reeving new ones.

From Homeward Bound or, the Chase by James Fenimore Cooper

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

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