ˈdike-reeve, dyke-[f. dike n.1 + reeve: perhaps an alteration of dike-grave, -greave, by identifying its final part with the Eng.reeve, as in port-reeve.]An officer appointed or approved by the Commissioners of Sewers, to take charge of the drains, sluices, and sea-banks of a district of fen or marsh-land in England.1665Act 16 & 17 Charles II, c. 11 §7 Summes of Money..by the said Dykereeves and Surveyours of Sewers or any of them expended in and about the takeing, repairing and amending of any such Breach or Breaches, Goole or Gooles, Overflowing or Overflowings of waters.1726Laws of Sewers 189 The Dyke-Reeves, Officers, or other Inhabitants there may set down the Slough of such Drains.1848Act 12 & 13 Vict. c. 50 §3 To appoint one or more competent person or persons, being an occupier of sewable lands..to act as dyke-reeve within each of such sub-districts.1883Notice 19 Oct. (Worle View of Sewers, Weston-super-Mare), Owing to the violence of the Gale on the 17th. a Special View of the Dyke Reeves was held, and your Work..was found to require repairing.1894Minute-bk. Court of Sewers, Wapentake of Manley &c., Dec. 17 Being occupiers of not less than ten acres of sewable land in the Messingham District..they are hereby appointed to act as dykereeves within the said district.