Reeve

Their small town had a reeve instead of a mayor.

In Grade 7, on one snowy winter day on Lulu Island, my friend Tom, who hailed from Taiwan, and I were building, on the school's baseball field, a snow city, modelled after the buildings on planet Krypton in the popular movie Superman with Christopher Reeve and Marlon Brando. Tom disappeared from this world later in high school.

His first convert was the reeve of the city of Lincoln called Blæcca, ...

A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Reeve”, perhaps, savoured a little too much of legal authority.

"Let the rope go," he says. With his other hand he reaches down and reeves the two turns from the stanchion.