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ReeveEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an English surname, from the noun reeve. * As an Irish surname, variant of Reeves.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗reeveEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English reve, from Old English rēfa, an aphetism of ġerēfa (also grœ̄fa), from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō (“officer, official”). Compare Danish greve, Swedish greve, Dutch graaf, German Graf. The role, and eventually the word, was mostly replaced by bailiff, of Anglo-Norman origin.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗reeveEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Apparent alternative form of reef (“to pull or yank strongly”, verb) or from Dutch reven (“to take in, insert”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗reeveEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Variant of dialectal ree, but of obscure ultimate origin.
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1908- ReeveEnglish · e-38699-5603
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
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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).]
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