reive

American  

[reev] / riv /

verb (used with or without object)

Chiefly Scot.

reived, reiving

1. to rob; plunder.

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reive British  

/ riːv /

verb

1. dialect (intr) to go on a plundering raid

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Other Word Forms

• reiver
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of reive

First recorded in 1860–65; variant of reave ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

reive reiving

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 Louis Tracy

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 George MacDonald

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 Rudyard Kipling

I won'er, now, could I conthrive to reive the top-cape off of this.

From Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow

Which of us would not have been a reiver in the old reiving days?

From Stories of the Border Marches by Jeanie Lang

What did I know of "passing a gammoning," "reiving a Burton," "strapping a shoe-block," "clearing a foul hawse," and innumerable other intricacies?

From Redburn. His First Voyage by Herman Melville

And his reiving was carried on in no paltry or insignificant fashion.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland

I hear enough about thieving and reiving, and such-like business, without my very fool dinning it into my ears.

From Tales From Scottish Ballads by Allan Stewart

"But, father," interrupted Jenny, "they say the twa reiving loons drave the cow frae the gudewife o' Bell's-moor, just because she gaed to hear a field-preaching ae Sabbath afternoon."

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott

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