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Meaning of 'rove' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Rove [ imp. & p. p.]
- of Reeve
2 . Rove [ n.]
- A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
- A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
- The act of wandering; a ramble.
3 . Rove [ v. i.]
- To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
- Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
- To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
4 . Rove [ v. t.]
- To draw through an eye or aperture.
- To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
- To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
- To wander over or through.
- To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

Meaning of 'rove' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . rove [ v]
Meaning (1):
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Example in sentence:
  • roving vagabonds;
  • The cattle roam across the prairie;
  • The gypsies roamed the woods;
  • the laborers drift from one town to the next;
  • the wandering Jew;
  • They rolled from town to town

Nearby Words:

roved rover roving rovingly rovingness

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