Definitions for reave
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, forayverb

   steal goods; take as spoils

   "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Reaveverb

   pret. rest.

   Etymology: ræfian , Saxon; whence to bereave.

   1. To take away by stealth or violence. An obsolete word.

   Dismounting from his lofty steed,
   He to him leapt, in mind to reave his life. Edmund Spenser.

   Some make his meashy bed, but reave his rest. Carew.

   Who can be bound by any solemn vow,
   To do a murd’rous deed, to rob a man,
   To force a spotless virgin’s chastity,
   To reave the orphan of his patrimony,
   And have no other reason for his wrong,
   But that he was bound by a solemn oath. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

   2. It was used as well in a good as bad sense.

   They sought my troubled sense how to deceave
   With talk, that might unquiet fancies reave. Hubberd.

   Each succeeding time addeth or reaveth goods and evils, according to the occasions itself produceth. Carew.

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1. Reave

   A reave is a long and generally straight boundary wall made of stone that was built during the Bronze Age. Reaves were identified as prehistoric features on Dartmoor in Devon, England in 1972, and although they had been described by antiquarians in the 1820s, the knowledge of their origins had been lost, ignored and misrepresented for around 150 years.There are three main classes of reaves: parallel reaves divided land to create rectilinear fields which were sometimes subdivided by cross reaves. Terminal reaves tend to run for great distances along contours or watersheds and served to divide the enclosed areas from the higher open moor. In total, the reaves on Dartmoor cover an area of over 10,000 hectares (39 sq mi).There are over 20 major field systems delineated by reaves on Dartmoor. The largest is around Rippon Tor, which covers over 2,000 hectares (7.7 sq mi). Other large systems are North Dart (over 1,400 hectares (5.4 sq mi)), South Dart (550 hectares (2.1 sq mi)) and Easdon Down (380 hectares (1.5 sq mi)).The longest reave identified on Dartmoor is known as the Great Western Reave, which, although incomplete, stretches over 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from beyond White Tor in the north, over Roos Tor, through the Merrivale archaeological landscape and Foggintor granite quarries to its southern end, east of Sharpitor, by the side of the B3212 road.

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1. reave

   Reave is a verb of old English origin that commonly means to take away, seize, or deprive. It can also refer to the act of carrying out a raid or engaging in acts of plundering or robbing. In modern uses, it occasionally appears in literature and poetry.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Reaveverb

   to take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]

2. Etymology: [AS. refian, from ref spoil, plunder, clothing, refan to break (cf. birefan to deprive of); akin to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rjfa to break, violate, Goth. birubn to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. 114. Cf. Bereave, Rob, v. t., Robe, Rove, v. i., Rupture.]

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1. Reave

   rēv, v.t. to take away by violence:—pa.t. and pa.p. reft.—n. Reav′er. [A.S. reáfian, to rob—reáf, clothing, spoil; Ger. rauben, to rob.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of reave in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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   The numerical value of reave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=reave
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=reave
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reave
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reave
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=reave