reiver

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reiver (plural reivers)

  1. 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

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reiver

  1. Alternative form of revere