What is "reive"

Usage examples of "reive".

My people have little enough, and the Karsites regularly reive away what little they have!

I got you out for six measly reives, though I was prepared to pay one or two more.

The veriest cateran that ever reived in the Hielands would be assoilzied on such a plea.

Behind them, to a rolling thump of hooves on turf, the others came, following the track to the reived farm.

The sheep had, indeed, been driven along the narrower path, and the path led down into another valley, and there were the Grannams with the reived flock, getting farther away all the time.

The constant braying of the reived sheep was louder as the first of them rounded the hill spur.

My reiving began when we needed food, and after we had money to pay for most of what we ate, I kept the habit.

He was reiving on one policeman whose name he did not know, on a moonlit road thirty miles away from him.

He thinks they were Grannams, probably on way home from reiving Sterkarms.

There was much talk of truce, but neither clan would stop their reiving and killing without pledges.

Scotsmen loved reiving, and it was a part of their lifestyle to steal from each other routinely.

Bowing and scraping, the Wolf retreated to his redoubt, and I never saw him again, nor heard tales of his reiving against Urey.

Town bounties were taking their reiving toll, with the headhunters unafraid to ride out in force, and no centaur guardians to challenge their trespass.

What in the stablished world is mine, that am thus in a moment reived of him that was mine own heartstring, my brother, the might of mine arm, the chiefest citadel of my dominion?

Doobtless sic bairnies hae to suffer frae the prood jeedgment o' their fellow-men and women, but they may get muckle guid and little ill frae that--a guid naebody can reive them o'.