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reeve

(v): pass a rope through
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10 days ago chained_bear said:

senior officer of a borough

about 1 month ago yarb said:

...carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 60

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