Definition of reeve Reeve

/ɹiˈv/ - [reev] - reeve

We found 15 definitions of reeve from 6 different sources.

What does reeve mean?

Noun Plural: reeves
reeve - female ruff
Verb reeves, reeving, reeved
reeve - fasten by passing through a hole or around something
		pass through cause to move through; "Pass a chemical through a solution"
reeve - pass through a hole or opening; "reeve a rope"
		pass through cause to move through; "Pass a chemical through a solution"
reeve - pass a rope through; "reeve an opening"
		pass through cause to move through; "Pass a chemical through a solution"

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reeve (Noun)
Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
reeve (Noun)
The president of a township or municipal district council.
reeve (Noun)
A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.
reeve (Verb)
To pass a rope through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.

reeve (n.)
The female of the ruff.
reeve (v. t.)
To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
reeve (n.)
an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc.

reeve
rēv, n. a steward or other officer (now used only in composition, as in sheriff)—a title applied to several classes of old English magistrates over various territorial areas, as borough-reeves, over boroughs; port-reeves, in trading towns, in ports; high-reeves, &c. [M. E. reve—A.S. geréfa—róf, excellent. Cf. Ger. graf.]
reeve
rēv, v.t. to pass the end of a rope through any hole, as the channel of a block:—pa.t. and pa.p. reeved, also rove (naut.). [Reef (2).]

reeve
To pass the end of a rope through any cavity or aperture, as the channel of a block; to unreeve is the opposite.

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