▪ I. reen
(riːn)
Also reene, rheen.
A variant (and more phonetic) spelling of the south-western rhine, a ditch.
| 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Nat. 142 A pale blue shrew..has been seen about the margin of our reenes, and the deep marsh ditches. 1864 G. F. Berkeley Life & Recoll. I. 241 The wide deep reens or ditches that intersect these marshy meadows. 1867 Macm. Mag. June 164 It is intersected..by several large dykes, called in the language of the country ‘rhines’ or ‘rheens’. |
▪ II. reen
var. rean; obs. f. reindeer).