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单词 rape reeve
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rape reeve
rape reeve n. historical (now rare) an official in charge of the administration of a rape.
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1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 116 These had formerly their lathe-reeves and rape-reeves acting in subordination to the Shire-reeve.
1838 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. I. ii. iii. 250/2 In some counties there was an intermediate division between the shire and the hundred—as lathes in Kent, and rapes in Sussex. These had their lathe-reeves and rape-reeves.
1921 F. W. Hackwood Story of Shire x. 102 Sussex is the only county which is divided into Rapes as well as into Hundreds or Wapentakes... The presiding officer of a Rape was called Rape-reeve, and like the Lath-reeve, acted in subordination to the Shire-reeve.
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