Reaf vs Heaf - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between reaf and heaf is that reaf is (now|chiefly|dialectal) spoil; booty; plunder, especially plunder from robbery or reaf can be while heaf is (northern england) a piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become heafed; a heft. As a verb heaf is (northern england) to become accustomed to and attached to an area of mountain pasture, seldom straying from it.
reaf
English
Noun
(en-noun)
(now, chiefly, dialectal) Spoil; booty; plunder, especially plunder from robbery.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) The act of practise of robbery; spoliation; depredation.
(now, chiefly, dialectal) The act of carrying off, abducting, or devouring (another).
(now, chiefly, dialectal, Scotland) Rapacity; greedy desire for plunder.
(now, chiefly, dialectal, Scotland) A thief; robber.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun )
* 1834 August 2, Niles’ Register , page 384:
- A large number of vessels continued to be wrecked, and a vast amount of property is lost on the Florida reafs .
* 1891 , H. A. Moriarty, Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, Westward of Longitude 80° east, including Madagascar , page 124:
- The largest ships may pass between the outer reafs and the Black rocks.
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heaf
English
Noun
(en noun )
(Northern England) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become heafed; a heft.
Verb
(en verb )
(Northern England) To become accustomed to and attached to an area of mountain pasture, seldom straying from it.
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