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Quotation dates: 1420-1475, 1584
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(Refery,) Revery(e, -eré, -aré, n. Also: rew(e)r-; ryw- and -erry. [ME and e.m.E. reuerye (1297), revery (1490), thereafter appar. obs.] The action of robbing; an instance of this. c1420 Wynt. v 2182.
Decius had Wyth-in that cyte tan herbry For dowt off ryot or rywery [C. reuerry] 1460 Hay Alex. MS 12723.
For vrang na revery we mak na defence c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv 40.
Wallace … quhen he sic reuere saw, He spak to thaim — c1420 Wynt. vii 2734.
Alysandyr … Wes throwcht the kynryk traveland, Haldand courtys … And chastyd in it all reverys [C. reweryis, W. rewryis] 1456 Hay I 3/16.
I se all Cristyndome sa … stroublit of weris … thiftis and reveryis [etc.] 1456 Ib. II 50/12.
Mony reveryes and wrang wynnyngis 1584 Protocol Book of John Mason 231.
Oblist him … to … deliver … ane last of gude and sufficient Ilis hering, sufficientlie packit, fre of all revareis, within the townis of Rochell or Bordeaulx
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