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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)

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

From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving

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

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 Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Osborn, Sherard