† reevern.
Obsolete.
In cider-making: a wooden instrument for collecting the crushed apples from the cider mill.
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1807 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Gloucester ix. 224 The reever is a piece of board fixed to a wooden handle, and made to fit the form of the cistern.
1813 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Glouc. 222 The stirrer, reever, and shovel used in the process [of cider making].
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1314 The Reever..to push it [sc. apple-pulp] up together for removal when ground.
1888 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 24 184 In addition to the mill there will be required a stirrer, a reever, and a shovel... The reever is a piece of board, made of the same shape as the section of the trough, fastened to a wooden handle, and is used to draw the pulp together in the trough.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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