reive

The word 'reive' in the second verse, not to be confused with 'reef', means to draw cord through eyelet holes; implying perhaps that Johnny will be doing a new kind of sewing. "

My Johnny Was a Shoemaker 1970

And the Duke must reive an invitation out of courtesy.

The Outrageous Dowager Westleigh, Sarah 1996

My people have little enough, and the Karsites regularly reive away what little they have!

Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988

My people have little enough, and the Karsites regularly reive away what little they have!

Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988

Then in a skirl o 'rage, her face working,' The foul things o 'the deep shall reive the flesh from ye in your death, and in your lives ye shall mourn for the quiet streams o' fresh water and the sight of green things growing -- and never, never, never get nigh them .... '

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

And the lairds are as bad as the loons; for if they dinna bid them gae reive and harry, the deil a bit they forbid them; and they shelter them, or let them shelter themselves, in their woods and mountains, and strongholds, whenever the thing's dune.

Rob Roy 1887

I won'er, now, could I conthrive to reive the top-cape off of this.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

Doobtless sic bairnies hae to suffer frae the prood jeedgment o 'their fellow-men and women, but they may get muckle guid and little ill frae that -- a guid naebody can reive them o'.

Salted with Fire George MacDonald 1864

And the lairds are as bad as the loons; for if they dinna bid them gae reive and harry, the deil a bit they forbid them; and they shelter them, or let them shelter themselves, in their woods and mountains, and strongholds, whenever the thing's dune.

Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

And the lairds are as bad as the loons; for if they dinna bid them gae reive and harry, the deil a bit they forbid them; and they shelter them, or let them shelter themselves, in their woods and mountains, and strongholds, whenever the thing's dune.

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801