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reavings

reavings is the plural of reaving.

Meaning of reaving

Noun

reaving (plural reavings)

  1. An act of pillage or plunder.
    • It was then as much the scene of continual spreaths, liftings, reavings, and herriments, as the Border country itself.1836, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 426

Questions about reavings

What is reavings the plural of?
Reavings is the plural of reaving.

Words near reavings in the dictionary

  1. reaver
  2. reavers
  3. reaves
  4. Reavill
  5. reaving
  6. reavings
  7. reavouch
  8. reavouched
  9. reavouches
  10. reavouching
  11. reavow

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