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Reeve
·noun The female of the ruff.
II. Reeve ·vt To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
III. Reeve ·noun an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor;
- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, ·etc.
reeve
reeve1
¦ noun
1. historical a local official, in particular the chief magistrate of a town or district in Anglo-Saxon England.
2. Canadian the elected leader of a village or town council.
Origin
OE refa; related to grieve2.
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reeve2
¦ verb (past and past participle rove or reeved) Nautical thread (a rope or rod) through a ring or other aperture.
Origin
C17: prob. from Du. reven (see reef2).
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reeve3
¦ noun a female ruff (bird).
Origin
C17: var. of dialect ree, of unknown origin.
Reeve (England)
![Oswald the Reeve in ''[[The Reeve's Tale]]'' by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Reeve - Ellesmere Chaucer.jpg?width=200 "Oswald the Reeve in ''[[The Reeve's Tale]]'' by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]")
SENIOR OFFICIAL WITH LOCAL RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER THE CROWN
Manor reeve
In Anglo-Saxon England, the reeve was a senior official with local responsibilities under the Crown, such as the chief magistrate of a town or district. After the Norman conquest, it was an office held by a man of lower rank, appointed as manager of a manor and overseer of the peasants.
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1. Reeve died in 2004, and Dana Reeve died two years later after complications from lung cancer.
2. Dana Reeve, the widow of the late actor Christopher Reeve, has died from lung cancer at age 44, according to a statement from the Christopher Reeve Foundation.
3. Fox and Dana Reeve, widow of "Superman" star Christopher Reeve, will call for an immediate loosening of Bush‘s policy.
4. Tributes: Dana Reeve showed Dana Reeve, who won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her Superman husband, Christopher Reeve, through his decade of near–total paralysis, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44.
5. Lance Armstrong spent Wednesday morning comforting 13–year–old Will Reeve, less than two days after his mother, Dana Reeve, died of lung cancer.