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Definitions of reaves in various dictionaries:
verb - steal goods
verb - to rob of goods by force
REAVES - 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 feat...
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Splits, old-style |
Pillages |
Plunders, old-style |
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Jul 14 2012 Newsday.com |
Sep 25 2006 USA Today |
Aug 17 2002 New York Times |
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Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reave. |
carry out raids in order to plunder. |
Carry out raids in order to plunder. |
Reaves description |
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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 10,000 hectares (39 sq mi).There are over 20 major field systems delineated by reaves on Dartmoor. The largest is around Rippon Tor, which covers over 2,000 hectares (7.7 sq mi). Other large systems are North Dart (over 1,400 hectares (5.4 sq mi)), South Dart (550 hectares (2.1 sq mi)) and Easdon Do |