The word "reeve" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used in historical contexts, particularly referring to a local official or magistrate in medieval England.
Example: "The reeve was responsible for maintaining law and order in the village."
Alternatives: "Bailiff" or "Steward."
Each municipality is governed by a council headed by a mayor or reeve.
The use of a pilgrimage as the framing device enabled Chaucer to bring together people from many walks of life: knight, prioress, monk; merchant, man of law, franklin, scholarly clerk; miller, reeve, pardoner; wife of Bath and many others.
In 1784 Reeve founded the Litchfield Law School, which was the first of its kind in the United States.
In the 13th century Sidmouth was a borough governed by a port reeve.
Here is the last paragraph: "According to Cornwall Council's website, the office of High Sheriff is an independent non-political royal appointment for a single year which traces its roots back to the Saxon 'shire reeve' who was responsible to the king for the maintenance of law and order and tax collection in the county".
This claim has largely depended on the work of Dugatkin and Reeve in establishing this equivalence (Dugatkin and Reeve 1994, Sterelny 1996b, Sober and Wilson 1998, Sterelny and Griffiths 1999, Kerr and Godfrey-Smith 2002a, Waters 2005).
The role of shire-reeve eventually developed into the modern office of county sheriff in England and in the United States.
Each hundred was grouped into a shire, which was supervised by a shire-reeve.
Each shire was ruled by an ealdorman (alderman), but after the 11th century his functions were taken over by the shire-reeve, or sheriff, who was appointed by the king.
Grube-Reeve 1992 here and throughout, sometimes with minor revisions), and this tone of impatient aggression is sustained throughout his discussion with Socrates.
One thing about Australia's recent Carlton Mid Series against the Proteas that struck me as being particularly inept was the perfunctory and unceremonious manner in which Steve Smith was acknowledged as player-of-the-series, receiving little more than a handshake before Mark Nicholas threw to the end credits and another post-cricket airing of Christopher Reeve-era Superman.
