reaving
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]reaving
- present participle and gerund of reave
Noun
[edit]reaving (plural reavings)
- An act of pillage or plunder.
- 1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426:
- It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]reaving
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of revynge