Crossword clues for reave
reave
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reave \Reave\ (r[=e]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaved (r[=e]vd),
Reft (r[e^]ft), or Raft (r[.a]ft) (obs.); p. pr. & vb. n.
Reaving.] [AS. re['a]fian, from re['a]f spoil, plunder,
clothing, re['o]fan to break (cf. bire['o]fan to deprive of);
akin to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rj[=u]fa to
break, violate, Goth. bir['a]ub[=o]n to despoil, L. rumpere
to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. [root]114. Cf. Bereave,
Rob, v. t., Robe, Rove, v. i., Rupture.]
To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to
rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. ``To reave his
life.''
--Spenser.
He golden apples raft of the dragon.
--Chaucer.
If the wooers reave
By privy stratagem my life at home.
--Chapman.
To reave the orphan of his patrimony.
--Shak.
The heathen caught and reft him of his tongue.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English reafian "to rob (something from someone), plunder, pillage," from Proto-Germanic *raubjon (cognates: Old Frisian ravia, Middle Dutch roven, Dutch rooven, Old High German roubon, German rauben), from PIE *reup- "to snatch" (see rip (v.)). Related: Reaved; reaving.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. (context archaic English) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. vb. (context archaic English) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. Etymology 2
vb. (context archaic English) To split, tear, break apart.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A reave is a long and generally straight boundary wall made of stone that was built during the Bronze Age. Reaves were identified as prehistoric features on Dartmoor in Devon, England in 1972, and although they had been described by antiquarians in the 1820s, the knowledge of their origins had been lost, ignored and misrepresented for around 150 years.
There are three main classes of reaves: parallel reaves divided land to create rectilinear fields which were sometimes subdivided by cross reaves. Terminal reaves tend to run for great distances along contours or watersheds and served to divide the enclosed areas from the higher open moor. In total, the reaves on Dartmoor cover an area of over .
There are over 20 major field systems delineated by reaves on Dartmoor. The largest is around Rippon Tor, which covers over . Other large systems are North Dart (over ), South Dart and Easdon Down .
The longest reave identified on Dartmoor is known as the Great Western Reave, which, although incomplete, stretches over from beyond White Tor in the north, over Roos Tor, through the Merrivale archaeological landscape and Foggintor granite quarries to its southern end, east of Sharpitor, by the side of the B3212 road.
Usage examples of "reave".
I have reft from you your birthright, she who is of all things most precious.
They who lived on in the form of the Ancient Ones needed no traffic with the goddess who had reft them of their domain.
He had as much cause to dislike Reft Zill as Reave did: He had also been at the fight at Menute Falls.
He could not think of any situation that could be improved by the presence of Reft Zill.
He golden apples reft from the dragon He drew out Cerberus the hound of hell.
Suddenly dizzy, disoriented, and numb with fear, Stanach was reft of his will and helpless.
To the beloved ones reft, By aid of thee, has left His form, his lip, his ardent glance, to tell How fair was he on earth who left it for a name.
Another had to be shot for meat, reft beyond cure by an ugly, splintered bone shredded through the thick hide of its gaskin.
Arithon could not transmute the effects, reft as he was from his mage talent.
He felt reft, his heart all but shredded with yearning to somehow restore them.
Ceremonial Inquisitor also was reft speechless, while the ranked candles burned, the white beeswax run liquid and refrozen in grotesque, clumped driblets.
His feet will turn to desert places Shadowless, reft of rain and dew, Where stars stare down with sharpened faces From heavens pitilessly blue.
Strelley saw two porters scramble after his portmanteaux, had his valise reft from his hand, and that hand firmly grasped before he could frame his reply.
Many of the Witches died in the backwash of the Power and the few left were reft of much of their strength, but Pagar and his forces were annihilated.
By the Maker, is a smith to be reft of his fight by any wandering female?