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riever

riever is the archaic form of reaver.

Meaning of reaver

Noun

reaver (plural reavers)

  1. One who reaves; a plunderer, marauder, or pillager.
    • nobody knows
      where these reavers from hell roam in their errands.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 7

Forms of riever

pluralrievers

Questions about riever

What is riever the archaic form of?
Riever is the archaic form of reaver.

Words near riever in the dictionary

  1. Rietvelds
  2. Rietz
  3. Rietzes
  4. rieve
  5. rieved
  6. riever
  7. rievers
  8. rieves
  9. Rieveses
  10. rieving
  11. rievings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: riever (page history and authors); reaver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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