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
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
“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
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 Robert Borland
"Ye cheat-the-gallows, ye reiving villain—what think you is the value of your head now!" cried the Bailie.
From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott
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 Robert Borland
They looked upon their reiving as being of the nature of reprisal.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
He was determined, however, at all hazards to suppress Border reiving.
From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland
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