reaving

English

Alternative forms

• rieving (archaic)

Verb

reaving

1. present participle and gerund of reave

Noun

reaving (plural reavings)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Ginevra, Ingrave, avering, ingrave, vaginer, vinegar

Middle English

Noun

reaving

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of revynge