reiver
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹiːv(ə)ɹ/
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- Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Noun
reiver (plural reivers)
- 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
- 1867, John Ruskin, Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne: Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work
Derived terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reiver in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Middle English
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