title: Reeve
text: # Reeve
  
  Reeve may refer to:
  
  ## Titles
  
  * Reeve (Canada), an elected chief executive of some counties, townships, and equivalents
  * Reeve (England), an official elected annually by the serfs to supervise lands for a lord
  * High-reeve, a title taken by some English magistrates during the 10th and 11th centuries
  * Shire reeve, an official position that originated the term Sheriff
  * Vogt, an official in many European countries, often translated reeve
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Reeve (surname), list of notable people with the surname
  * Reeve, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  * Reeve knot, a stopper knot
  * Reeve, a female ruff (bird), a wading bird
  * Reeve (Final Fantasy), a character from the video game Final Fantasy VII
  * Reeve Electric Association Plant, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Iowa
  * "The Reeve's Prologue and Tale", from The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
  * Leander Reeve House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Iowa
  * To reeve a line through blocks in order to gain a mechanical advantage, a nautical term
  