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单词 reap-reeve
释义

reap-reeven.

Brit. /ˈriːpˌriːv/, U.S. /ˈripˌriv/
Forms:

α. Middle English repe-refe, Middle English repe-reve, Middle English repe-rewe, Middle English repe-reyue, Middle English rep-reve, 1800s– reap-reeve.

β. Middle English ripe-reue, Middle English ripp-reue, Middle English rip-reue, Middle English rype-reue.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: reap n.2, reeve n.1
Etymology: < reap n.2 + reeve n.1 Compare post-classical Latin reperevus, riperevus, ripereva, repreva (from 1267 in British sources).In quot. 1272-3 showing use of the English word in a multilingual document.
Now historical.
A harvest overseer. Also: a person appointed to guard crops against theft at harvest-time.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower > overseer
reap-reeve1272
1272–3 in F. G. Davenport Econ. Devel. of Norfolk Manor (1906) p. xli (MED) In allocatione facta de le carte reve et le repe reve.
1316 in Middle Eng. Dict. at Ripe-reve G.K. qui fuit Ripereue in autumno cepit glenes male adquis[itas] a diversis transgr[essoribus].
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. vi. 15 (MED) Canstow..Repe other be a repereyue [v.r. rippreue, rype-reue] and a-ryse erliche, Oþer haue an horne and be haywarde and liggen oute a nyghtes, And kepe my corn in my croft fro pykers and þeeues?
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 596/7 Metellus, a reperefe.
1863 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 14 344 These mounted overseers were called reap-reeves.
1924 W. Rees S. Wales & March 184 Later, it became necessary to appoint another supervisor during the harvest season, the reap-reeve.
2001 Econ. Hist. Rev. 54 6 Thomas Weynild was cowman and shepherd and serjeant of the manor as well as reap-reeve at harvest-time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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