different between reiver vs reive

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?v(?)?/
• Rhymes: -i?v?(?)

Noun

reiver (plural reivers)

1. Alternative form of reaver
   • 1867, John Ruskin, Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne: Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work

     you may retain nearly every moral and manly virtue , and become a heroic rider and reiver, and hero of song

Derived terms

• border reiver

Anagrams

• riever, verier

Middle English

Noun

reiver

1. Alternative form of revere

English

Verb

reive (third-person singular simple present reives, present participle reiving, simple past and past participle reived or reft)

1. Archaic spelling of reave.
   • 1567 July 19, Proclamation by the Earl of Bedford, quoted in Calendar of State Papers, foreign series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1566-8 (1871), volume 10:

     [The earl] commands all within his charge to abstain from reiving or stealing from the subjects of Scotland. For such riefs as have been made upon them, the Queen minds to have the same mended by justice.

   • 2014, Peter T. Leeson, Anarchy Unbound ?ISBN:

     So, although many borderers regularly engaged in reiving, most were also part-time agriculturalists, raising crops such as oats and rye, as well as livestock.

Anagrams

• revie, rieve, verie

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Central Franconian rieve

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra??v?/

Verb

reive

1. to rub

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian brev, Swedish brev.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?rej?ve/

Noun

reive

1. letter (message)

Inflection

Alternative forms

• breava

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland