Usually means: Passing rope through pulleys, blocks.
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  1. reeving: Merriam-Webster
  2. reeving: Collins English Dictionary
  3. reeving: Vocabulary.com
  4. reeving: Wordnik
  5. reeving: Wiktionary
  6. Reeving, reeving: Dictionary.com
  7. Reeving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Reeving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. reeving: FreeDictionary.org
  10. reeving: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reeving: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reeving: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reeving: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Reeve)

noun:  (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
noun:  (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.
noun:  (military, historical) The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.
verb:  (nautical, dialect) To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.
noun:  A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a bailiff.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Vance Creek, Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.
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