Obs. In 5 north. dial. kirke-reve. [see REEVE.] A churchwarden.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Friar’s T., 7. Of chirche Reues and of testamentz.
1442. E. E. Wills (1882), 131. That the kirkerevys of the parish chirch of Clerkenwell haue xiijs. iiijd. for to spend on the onourmentȝ of the same kirke.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 198/1. Church-Wardens, anciently Church-Reeves … are officers elected every week after Easter.
