Word Definition

Rove

  1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
  2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
  3. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
  4. The act of wandering; a ramble.
  5. of Reeve
  6. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
  7. To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
  8. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  9. To draw through an eye or aperture.
  10. To wander over or through.
  11. 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.
  12. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

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