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
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
Doobtless sic bairnies hae to suffer frae the prood jeedgment o' their fellow-men and women, but they may get muckle guid and little ill frae that—a guid naebody can reive them o'.
From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George
It is true their reiving partook now somewhat more of the nature of horse-stealing pure and simple.
From Stories of the Border Marches by Lang, Jeanie
They looked upon their reiving as being of the nature of reprisal.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
We find in the “Border Papers,” from which much of our information regarding Border reiving has been drawn, that the name “Burness” frequently occurs.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
Border reiving did not altogether cease for nearly a hundred years after the union of the Crowns; but the beginning of the seventeenth century inaugurated the period of its decline.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
That this feeling had something to do with the existence and development of the reiving system, must be apparent to every student of history and of human nature.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert
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