noun. The elected president of a town council in some parts of Canada.

noun. Any of various minor officers of parishes or other local authorities.

noun. A bailiff or steward of a manor in the later medieval period.

noun. A high officer of local administration appointed by the Anglo-Saxon kings.

transitive verb. To pass (a rope or rod) through a hole, ring, pulley, or block.

transitive verb. To fasten by passing through or around.

transitive verb. To pass a rope or rod through (a hole, ring, pulley, or block).

noun. The female ruff, Philomachus pugnax.

noun. A steward; a prefect; a bailiff; a business agent.

noun. A foreman in a coal-mine.

noun. A bird, the female of the ruff, Machetes pugnax, See Pavoncella, and cut under ruff.

Nautical, to pass or run through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ring-bolt, cringle, etc., as the end of a rope.

To run (a ship) through narrow channels in a shoal or through openings in an ice-pack, after the fashion of a rope through the hole in a block, etc.

An obsolete variant of reave.

noun. The female of the ruff.

noun. an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds

transitive verb. To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.

verb. To pass a rope through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.

noun. A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.

noun. Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.

noun. The president of a township or municipal district council.

noun. A proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to wing commander.

verb. fasten by passing through a hole or around something

verb. pass a rope through

verb. pass through a hole or opening

noun. female ruff

"All he got was 'reeve' of some little shi-poke burg down south."

fen reeve  

reeving  rove  

pass through  philomachus pugnax  ruff  

Eve  Kleve  Neave  Rajiv  Steve  

apparitor  bailiff  burgesses  carcanet  gamekeeper  

G-man  MP  alderman  archon  bailie  

rove  

reeved  reeves  reeving