Reeves' shad gather in large schools each spring to migrate upstream and spawn in estuaries.

The village meeting appointed three trithing-reeves to oversee the harvest and settle disputes.

The trithing-reeve inspected the village records to resolve the boundary dispute.

Reeves County spans a vast, sparsely populated desert region whose county seat is Pecos.

Biologists counted dozens of Reeves' shads during the river survey last week.

The old law books described how the shire-reeves maintained order in their counties.

The hog reeve rounded up the stray pigs before the fair opened.

The hog reeves worked late into the night, rounding up stray pigs from the neighborhood.

At dawn, the old town's hog-reeves inspected the fences to make sure no pigs had escaped.

At the town meeting, they agreed to appoint a hog-reeve to catch any pigs wandering into the common pasture.