meaning of rove
1. To draw through an eye or aperture.
2. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
3. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
4. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
5. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
6. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
7. 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.
8. To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
9. To wander over or through.
10. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
11. The act of wandering; a ramble.
12. of Reeve
13. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to
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