reeve
noun
an administrative officer of a town or district.
reeving
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present participleof reeve.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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We could see some of her crew aloft reeving and stopping braces and ready to repair any damage done, working as coolly under fire as old man-of-war's men.
From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various
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
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
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
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 Edward Osler
