reiver
- a word derived from reive.
Example Sentences
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Craig Johnston, who shares his surname with one of the great reiver families, is English but campaigning for a "yes" vote in Scotland.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2014
A horse was like a car to a Border reiver: fast transport for a speedy getaway, and a powerful status symbol.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2013
I am no common reiver, and they are not mine.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
‘We go to catch a rank reiver Has broken faith wi' the bold Buccleuch.’
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
That’ll be Clement’s son, the biggest thief and reiver in the countryside.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis
