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Meanings of reeve in English
Russian
войт эмиль Spanish
vogt Title of overlordship or nobility in the Holy Roman Empire.
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Examples for "steward"
Examples for "steward"
1
Secondly, the company's owners are losing a good steward of the business.
2
The steward said tersely, This food is for a private CHOAM party.
3
The steward told them the officers were breakfasting in the dining saloon.
4
Flinders had been steward of the estate for a good many years.
5
I put the steward on guard in the garden, beneath the windows.
1
The bailiff was in perfect despair at the disorders in his jurisdiction.
2
The bailiff had twenty pounds all in gold; no one ever knew.
3
He asked the sleepy bailiff what case they were trying in there.
4
The bailiff seeks a corpse; he pledges his honor to discover one.
5
To Dighton was granted the office of bailiff of Ayton in Staffordshire.
1
Vogt says he believes a bank should take responsibility for people's money.
2
And he couldn't say why he and Dozier and Vogt were spared.
3
Since Walton became a charter school, its test scores have risen, Vogt said.
4
Each time Vogt performs it with an orchestra, he provides a different perspective.
5
Vogt's wrath was directed with special keenness against my teacher, Lotze.
Usage of reeve in English
1
Then the reeve came in, armed and ready, and we must go.
2
To reeve some new halliards, as I put in my report.
3
He put a reeve in each of them and took her to Brattalithe.
4
I brought it on deck, and began to reeve laniards for the shrouds.
5
Each vill was represented by a reeve and four reputable men.
6
The reeve took security from every person for the maintenance of the public peace.
7
Usually, the shire reeve, or "sheriff", held each hundred court in turn.
8
At once the hoist rope began to reeve down through the pulley of the crane.
9
A wild griffin was taking cattle, sir, so the reeve sent a message to Eagleholm.
10
In the manor courts, the lord's reeve generally presided.
11
Squire countermanded an order after Monteith told one of the hands to reeve some new halliards.
12
The halyards reeve through a hole in a projecting arm a foot long at the masthead.
13
The admiral now turning to the boatswain ordered him to reeve a rope to the yard-arm.
14
The reeve looked at him in stern rebuke.
15
Then the port-reeve was replaced by a mayor, who was elected yearly by the city wards.
16
I know of this only in the fowl, swan, tropic-bird, owl, ruff and reeve, and cuckoo.
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