† wall-reeven.Obsolete an official charged with keeping embankments in repair.
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1316 Placitorum Abbrev. (1811) 352 Et dicunt qđ idem dñs & curia sua de Stebenhethe..ordinavit..duos homines qui vocantur Walreves ad supervidendum wallias fossata seweras & gutteras praedicta.