Definition of "reeving" [reeving]

• Present participle of reeve. (verb)

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• "Wiki was up in the maintop reeving some rigging when he heard his name called quietly, and when he arrived at the bottom of the mast he scrutinized Mr. Holden curiously, noting the dark, haunted eyes, and the way the skin was drawn tautly over his handsome cheekbones."
• "Some harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists."
• "Other men were reeving spare halliards and sheets so that heavy coils of rope were forever tumbling through the rigging to thump on the decks."