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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

In exceptional cases the lord nominates the reeve, although he still remains the chief representative of village interests and the chief collector of services.

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

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

The topsail-tye reeves through these blocks, the tye-block on the yard, and the standing part is secured to the mast-head.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

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

The lad looked piteously at Dave and his companion of the rabbit warren—two inseparable friends—and felt that his chance of seeing the ruffs and reeves captured was very small.

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

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

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 Grant, Gordon

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 Tracy, Louis

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)

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

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

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

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

While the Indefatigable was reeving fresh braces, the other frigates came up, having been enabled to make a shorter distance by the altered course of the combatants during the chase.

From The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth by Osler, Edward

The next operation was the reeving of the ropes over the wheels of the pulley.

From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Reid, Mayne

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 Cooper, James Fenimore

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

It was accomplished by reeving a line from hole to hole by means of the long slender pole already mentioned.

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