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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reeve . - adjective nautical Of a
rope , passed through ahole ,ring orpulley .
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Examples
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A block hung from the top of the hut, with a rope reeved in it; one end was made fast to the upper edge of the bath, and the other went down into the bath.
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If these were reeved and drawn taut, the cases would be held as in a vice, and the lids could be taken off freely at any time.
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On deck all hell broke loose as they were striking the maintopmast half an hour later; the preventer top-rope reeved through the fid-hole parted at the very moment a deluge of warm rain beat down on the ship, so thick they could scarcely breathe, much less see.
Archive 2006-12-01 Bruce Schauble 2006
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On deck all hell broke loose as they were striking the maintopmast half an hour later; the preventer top-rope reeved through the fid-hole parted at the very moment a deluge of warm rain beat down on the ship, so thick they could scarcely breathe, much less see.
Heavy Weather Bruce Schauble 2006
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Eli undershot this dark system. i oversaw Jaime when ate me Sky! it told present arch, that enwound sadly... above plough reeved whistle, driving wrung anti the week despite blue chance: "who he gainsaid us?"
26th January '05 2005
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If these were reeved and drawn taut, the cases would be held as in a vice, and the lids could be taken off freely at any time.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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A block hung from the top of the hut, with a rope reeved in it; one end was made fast to the upper edge of the bath, and the other went down into the bath.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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Hanging from a peg on the doorpost was a simple halter, a rye-straw rope spliced into a bight on one end with the other reeved through to form a running loop.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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Nonnus had reeved the other end through a three-hole block joining the dugout's mast to the ram of the trireme.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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The fall was reeved through a single block at the masthead.
Lord of the Isles 1997
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