reive
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of reive
First recorded in 1860–65; variant of reave 1
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As kick-off approached, they roared and roared, fuelled by the hope of seeing their team pull off a remarkable shock and reive their qualifying hopes.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2023
“Tell her,” quoth he, “that I be going across seas to reive the Dons, and that I shall bring back to her a gold drinking-cup worthy of her oldest brew.”
From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis
I won'er, now, could I conthrive to reive the top-cape off of this.
From Strangers at Lisconnel by Barlow, Jane
For every cow I spared before In charity set free, If I may reach my hold once more I'll reive an honest three.
From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Kipling, Rudyard
If that God gie the deil daurna reive.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
One of the Scotts of Buccleuch married a daughter of the house, which, on the principle of heredity, may help to explain the well-known reiving propensities of some branches of this famous clan.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
Such an incident shows that Kinmont and his friends were in a position to set the constituted authorities at defiance, and conduct their reiving “without let or hindrance.”
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
His grandfather, on the maternal side, was Professor Rutherford, a famous man in his day, the scion of an old Border stock, renowned, like the Harden family, in the annals of reiving.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
The Jackdaw of Rheims. s might be expected, the existence of such an extraordinary phenomenon as Border reiving did not escape the attention of the Church.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
But, notwithstanding the removal of these lawless men from the Borders, it was found that those who had been left at home were either unwilling or unable to abandon their reiving habits.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
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