reeve
noun
an administrative officer of a town or district.
reeved
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past participleof reeve.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof reeve.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
reevenounan administrative officer of a town or district.
Example Sentences
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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
On the drawers was the bonnet, which was of reeved crape made upon wire, and not one at all suited for a careless girl; but it was made by a milliner at Plymouth.
From The Fairchild Family by Florence M. Rudland
The rudder, and great part of the false keel, were carried away; and the rudder would have been lost, but for Sir Thomas's timely exertion in getting a hawser reeved through it.
From The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 by James Harrison
He had reeved anew nearly all the running rigging of the ship, getting rid of useless blocks, putting single blocks for double wherever he could, using pendent blocks, and adjusting the purchases scientifically.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
A sailor climbed the pole by nailing on cleats, pulled down the British flag, and reeved new halyards.
From A Brief History of the United States by John Bach McMaster
