Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Greeve \Greeve\, n.
   See {Grieve}, an overseer.

Grieve \Grieve\ (gr[=e]v), Greeve \Greeve\, n. [AS. ger[=e]fa.
   Cf. {Reeve} an officer.]
   A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a
   manorial bailiff. [Scot.]

         Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. --Sir
                                                  W. Scott.