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

Etymology

Origin of reive

First recorded in 1860–65; variant of reave ¹

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

If that God gie the deil daurna reive.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

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

“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

It would seem that the season of year most favourable to reiving was between Michaelmas and Martinmas.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

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

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

He was determined, however, at all hazards to suppress Border reiving.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Borland, Robert

And my father had pleased old Crabbe, some other day I will tell you how, and also how long these bottles were concealed under ground, to save them from the reiving Southron.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir