Rove

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To wander about at random, especially over a wide area; roam.
  • v. To roam or wander around, over, or through. See Synonyms at wander.
  • n. An act of wandering about, over, around, or through.
  • v. To card (wool).
  • v. To put (fibers) through an eye or opening.
  • v. To stretch and twist (fibers) before spinning; ravel out.
  • n. A slightly twisted and extended fiber or sliver.
  • v. Nautical A past tense and a past participle of reeve2.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To shoot with arrows (at).
  • v. To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
  • v. To card wool or other fibres.
  • v. Simple past of rive.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To draw through an eye or aperture.
  • v. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
  • v. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  • n. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
  • n. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
  • verb-intransitive. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
  • verb-intransitive. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
  • v. To wander over or through.
  • v. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
  • n. The act of wandering; a ramble.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To wander at pleasure or without definite aim; pass the time in going about freely; range at random, or as accident or fancy may determine; roam; ramble.
  • To aim, as in archery or other sport, especially at some accidental or casual mark. See roving mark, below.
  • To act the rover; lead a wandering life of robbery, especially on the high seas; rob.
  • To have rambling thoughts; be in a delirium; rave; be light-headed; hence, to be in high spirits; be full of fun and frolic. [Scotch.]
  • Synonyms Roam, Wander, etc. See ramble, v.
  • To wander over; roam about.
  • . To discharge or shoot, as an arrow, at rovers, or in roving. See rover, 5.
  • To plow into ridges, as a field, by turning one furrow upon another.
  • n. The act of roving; a ramble; a wandering.
  • To draw through an eye or aperture; bring, as wool or cotton, into the form which it receives before being spun into thread; card into flakes. as wool, etc.; slub; sliver.
  • To draw out into thread; ravel out.
  • n. A roll of wool, cotton, etc., drawn out and slightly twisted; a slub.
  • n. A diamond-shaped washer placed over the end of a rove clench-nail, which is riveted down upon it.
  • n. Preterit and past participle of reeve.
  • n. An obsolete form of roof.
  • n. A unit of weight, the arroba, formerly used in England.
  • In mech., to turn; make round: said particularly of turning stone: as, to rove a millstone.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  • Verb Form
    roved    roves    roving   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    locomote    travel    move    go   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    gad    maunder    gallivant    jazz around   
    Form
    rover    roving    roved   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    roving    wander    roam    range    ramble stroll    ramble    rauge   
    Verb Stem
    rive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dove    Grove    Hove    Nov    Soave    bove    cove    dove    drove    gove