reeve
noun
an administrative officer of a town or district.
reeves
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present tense formof reeve (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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 pretty sea swallows used to breed on the marsh, and the curious ruffs and reeves.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
Our jury is derived from an Anglo-Saxon custom; our nobility and officials are representatives of Anglo-Saxon earls and reeves.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen
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
