intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To wander about, especially over a wide area; roam. synonym: wander.

intransitive verb. To be directed without apparent purpose; look in an idle or casual manner.

intransitive verb. To roam or wander around, over, or through.

intransitive verb. To look at or around (an area) in an idle or casual manner.

noun. An act of wandering about, over, around, or through.

transitive verb. To card (wool).

transitive verb. To put (fibers) through an eye or opening.

transitive verb. To stretch and twist (fibers) before spinning; ravel out.

noun. undefined

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.

noun. 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.

noun. A roll of wool, cotton, etc., drawn out and slightly twisted; a slub.

noun. A diamond-shaped washer placed over the end of a rove clench-nail, which is riveted down upon it.

noun. Preterit and past participle of reeve.

noun. An obsolete form of roof.

In mech., to turn; make round: said particularly of turning stone: as, to rove a millstone.

noun. A unit of weight, the arroba, formerly used in England.

transitive verb. To draw through an eye or aperture.

transitive verb. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.

transitive verb. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

noun. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

noun. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.

transitive verb. To wander over or through.

transitive verb. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

noun. The act of wandering; a ramble.

noun. any one of numerous species of beetles of the family Staphylinidæ, having short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely. They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.

intransitive verb. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.

intransitive verb. 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.

intransitive verb. To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).

verb. Simple past of rive.

verb. To shoot with arrows (at).

verb. To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.

verb. To card wool or other fibres.

verb. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

"So far the prize had been simply held alongside by the whale-line, which at death had been "rove" through a hole cut in the solid gristle of the tail; but now it became necessary to secure the carcase to the ship in some more permanent fashion."

rove clench-nail  roving mark  

reeve  

roved  rover  roving  

go  locomote  move  travel  

gad  gallivant  jazz around  maunder  

Dove  Grove  Hove  Nov  Soave  

Wanderjahr  afoot and lighthearted  bat around  bum  bumming  

roved  roves  roving  

rive