What is "reiving"

Usage examples of "reiving".

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.

Less than five years back, each would have blamed the other for the atrocities of those brigands, and eventually, reivings or raidings would have been the result, followed by vengeful burnings and ambushes and battles and then the whole damned bloody border might well have gotten involved.