Rove
Rove (rōv) , transitive verb
[perhaps from or akin to reeve.]
1.
To draw through an eye or aperture.
2.
To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. — Jamieson
3.
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
Rove (rōv) , noun
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 , intransitive verb
[Compare Dutch rooven to rob; akin to English reave. See Reave, Rob.]
1.
To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obsolete] — Hakluyt
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.
Rove , transitive verb
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 , noun
The act of wandering; a ramble.
In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.
Collocations (1)
Rove beetle (Zoology) , 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.