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an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc. Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

See Grieve, an overseer.

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.

Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.

A port warden.

To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like.

Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks. Bee beetle (Zoöl.), a beetle (Trichodes apiarius) parasitic in beehives. -- Bee bird (Zoöl.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the European flycatcher, and the American kingbird. -- Bee flower…

A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.

, is run up to its yard. -- Clew-line block (Naut.), The block through which a clew line reeves. See Illust. of Block.

Inland. [Obs.] T. Reeve(1657)

A lower stay of rope or chain for the jib boom or flying jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself.

Gay; spruce; fine; -- said of persons. [R.] T. Reeve.

To replenish. [Obs.] T. Reeve.

In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. [Obs.] Fabyan.

uarters of a yard on each side of the slings, through which the clew lines and sheets are reeved. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Quarter boat (Naut.), a boat hung at a vessel's quarter. -- Quarter cloths (Naut.), long pieces of painted canvas, used to cover the quarter netting. -- Quarter day, a day regarded as terminating a qu…

An officer, steward, or governor. [Usually written reeve.] [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

nto which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding. Blackstone.

olygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.