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adj. wandering freely.

v. Present participle of rove.

n. A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn.

n. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.

n. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.

n. The act of one who roves or wanders.

n. The act of rambling or wandering.

n. Archery as practised by a rover. See rover, 4.

n. The process of giving the first twist to yarn, or of forming a rove.

n. A slightly twisted sliver of carded fiber, as wool or cotton; a rove.

adj. migratory

n. travelling about without any clear destination

"After one more postdoctoral year which I spent in "roving" mode, spending time at Oxford, Harvard and Illinois, in the autumn of 1967 I took up a lectureship at the University of Sussex, where I was to spend the next fifteen years of my career."

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