Usually means: Raider along Anglo-Scottish border historically.
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  1. reiver: Merriam-Webster
  2. reiver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reiver: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Reiver, reiver: Wordnik
  5. reiver: Wiktionary
  6. Reiver: Dictionary.com
  7. Reiver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Reiver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. reiver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Reiver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. reiver: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Reiver: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Reiver: Legal dictionary

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  1. reiver: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Archaic form of reaver. [One who reaves, a border raider or cattle thief]

Similar:
border reiver, rippier, gully-raker, ramplor, reaper, rifler, cattlebuyer, ranger, plougher, share-herder, more...

Opposite:
settler, inhabitant, resident

Phrases:
border reiver, more...

Adjectives:
rank, notorious, generous, scottish, many, strong, ancient, finished



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Similar:
border reiver, rippier, gully-raker, ramplor, reaper, rifler, cattlebuyer, ranger, plougher, share-herder, more...

Opposite:
settler, inhabitant, resident

Phrases:
border reiver, more...

Adjectives:
rank, notorious, generous, scottish, many, strong, ancient, finished



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