reiver
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈɹiːv(ə)ɹ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Noun
editreiver (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
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “reiver”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editNoun
editreiver
- Alternative form of revere