reaving
English
Alternative forms
- rieving (archaic)
Noun
reaving (plural reavings)
- An act of pillage or plunder.
- 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:
- It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.
Middle English
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