A “field driver,” appointed to look after strays.
1759. Joseph Clark … John Petty sworn Hog Riffs.—‘Amherst Records’ (1884), p. 21. (N.E.D.)
1858. A man who can get down on his face and eat dirt after that fashion, for nothing but a beggarly office, is not fit for a hog-reeve.—N.Y. Tribune, June (Bartlett).
1877. If I had continued in active political life, I might have risen to be vote distributor, or fence viewer, or selectman, or hog-reeve, or something of the kind.—J. L. Motley, Harper’s Mag., lv. p. 614/1 (Sept.) (Bartlett).
