Crossword clues for reaver
reaver
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reaver \Reav"er\ (r[=e]v"[~e]r), n. One who reaves. [Archaic]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English reafere "plundering forager," agent noun from reafian (see reave (v.)). Similar formation in Old Frisian ravere, Middle Dutch rover, Dutch roover, Old High German roubari, German Räuber.
Wiktionary
n. One who reaves.
Wikipedia
Reavers are a fictional group of humans in the television series Firefly and film Serenity who live on the fringes of civilized space and have become animalistic. Within most of the timeline of the series and movie, the existence of Reavers is officially denied by the Alliance, the ruling government of humanity, but they are a harsh reality around the outer planets.
The Reavers are mentioned several times during the course of the television show. A Reaver ship is seen in the pilot episode, and the episode " Bushwacked" shows someone becoming a Reaver. The movie Serenity featured Reavers and revealed their origin.
Reaver, Reavers, may refer to:
- Border Reivers, aka Border Reavers, raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border between the 12th and 16th centuries
- Reavers (comics), cyborg villains in Marvel Comics (1988)
- Reaver, a unit in the game StarCraft (1998)
- Reavers, an enemy in The Runelords series by David Farland (1998)
- Reaver (Firefly), space-faring cannibals in the television series Firefly (2002) and the related movie Serenity
- Reaver, an associate of the Reaver Mercenary Company in the mod DiscoveryGC of Freelancer (video game) (2003)
- Reavers, an enemy in the Gears of War series (2006)
- The Reavers, a 2007 novel by George MacDonald Fraser
- Reaver, a character in Fable II (2008) and its sequel Fable III
- Reaver, a "specialization" of the Warrior class in the game Dragon Age: Origins (2009)
- Reaver, a character in the game Borderlands (2009).
- Reaver, a tool used to exploit a vulnerability in Wi-Fi Protected Setup (2012)
- Reaver, an aircraft in the game Planetside 2 (2012)
- Rob's Reaver Army, official fan group of speculative fiction author Rob Thurman
- A variation of an enemy in Destiny (video game)
Usage examples of "reaver".
It was a center of robbers and reavers, and of certain illicit trades of Tinsen from the west, and various outer islands to the south.
Once the skiff crew began boarding, drawing all the reavers aft, five waterlogged Manitou sailors managed to swim around to the bow and clamber aboard, using loops of dangling, cable.
During the previous battle, reavers had begun to build some sort of a strange tower there, with blue spires made of mucilage that twisted up like narwhale horns.
Thalia, Captain Poulandres, Baltha, Kau, most of the rads, most of the reavers, nearly all of the Manitou crew, including the young navigator who had helped Maia and her twin find their way through the dazzling complexity of the world-wall.
And few vines or rootlike creepers swung from overhead to brush against them, for these too had snapped away as the reaver army marched beneath.
To the northwest, the frowth giants waded among the reavers, their huge iron-bound staves rising and crashing down.
Scot reavers were not left behind until the column had crossed the Tees and were into Swaledale itself.
Perhaps a lantern got smashed while the reavers battled the owners for their cargo.
The image of a whole town called to arms because some clumsy reavers spilled a lantern had them in stitches.
As during the night of the reavers, Leie listened avidly and joined in this bucket brigade, even when the snippets were so obviously debased as to be worthless.
What need, with reavers and other coastal troubles far away, and men banished during rut time?
From their accents and features, she guessed the two shorter, stockier ones must be from the Southern Isles, legendary home of reavers and sharp traders, while the other two, including the rangy blonde, spoke with the sharp twang typical of this part of Eastern Continent.
It had all been decided at a meeting, three days after the reavers dumped them on this spirelike isle whose name, if any, must be lost to another age.
Leie and the reavers were going to put her ashore, and sail off with Renna!
Through the blue funk of her thoughts, she followed Naroin along a trail overlooking the bright sea, walking in silence back to where the reavers had dumped enough food and supplies to last until the next promised shipment.