reiver
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
reiver (plural reivers)
- Archaic 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
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References[edit]
- “reiver”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Noun[edit]
reiver
- Alternative form of revere