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Rove   /roʊv/   Listen
verb
Rove  v. t.  
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.


Rove  v. t.  
1.
To wander over or through. "Roving the field, I chanced A goodly tree far distant to behold."
2.
To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.


Rove  v. i.  (past & past part. roved; pres. part. roving)  
1.
To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. (Obs.)
2.
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. "For who has power to walk has power to rove."
3.
(Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). "Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove."
Synonyms: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.


noun
Rove  n.  
1.
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
2.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.


Rove  n.  The act of wandering; a ramble. "In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt."
Rove beetle (Zool.), any one of numerous species of beetles of the family Staphylinidae, having short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely. They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.





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"Rove" Quotes from Famous Books



... free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
... fearfully dull, loafing around, in this fashion, on a lonely island, yet in plain sight of the sea that we long to rove over," nodded Captain Tom Halstead of the motor ...
— The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless - The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise • H. Irving Hancock
... In my hands The goddess plac'd thee; thou hast been to me As sacred as to her, and her behest Shall for the future also be my law. If thou canst hope in safety to return Back to thy kindred, I renounce my claims: But is thy homeward path for ever clos'd— Or doth thy race in hopeless exile rove, Or lie extinguish'd by some mighty woe— Then may I claim thee by more laws than one. Speak openly, thou know'st I keep ...
— Iphigenia in Tauris • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... delight are gone by, When we left our lov'd homes o'er new regions to rove, When the firm manly grasp, and the soft female sigh, Mark'd the mingled sensations of friendship and love. That season of pleasure has hurried away, When through far-stretching ice a safe passage we found[1], That led us again ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 • Various
... done three times, and sometimes twenty times, in succession, to the same prisoner, either as a punishment or by way of examination, to extract a confession of the truth. As the rope of torture was permanently rove through the pulley over the front door, it must have been impossible not to see it and remember what it meant every time one went in or out. And such quick reminders of danger and torture, and sudden, painful death, give the pitch and key ...
— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford


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