Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Greeve"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Greeve \Greeve\, n.
See {Grieve}, an overseer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), Greeve \Greeve\, n. [AS. ger[=e]fa.
Cf. {Reeve} an officer.]
A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a
manorial bailiff. [Scot.]
Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. --Sir
W. Scott.
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