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REEVE
- administrative officer of a town or district
- overseer or superintendent of workers, tenants, or an estate
- (formerly) a person of high rank representing the crown
- the presiding officer of a village or town council
- to fasten by passing through or around something [v REEVED, REEVES, REEVING, ROVE, ROVEN, ROVEN]
- to pass (a rope or the like) through a hole, ring, or the like
- to fasten by placing through or around something
- to pass a rope through (the swallow of a block)
- the female of the ruff, Philomachus pugnax
- a local administrative agent of an Anglo-Saxon king
- medieval English manor officer responsible chiefly for overseeing the discharge of feudal obligations
- local official charged with enforcement of specific regulations deer reeve