ROVE

Definitions for the word, rove

(imp. & p. p.) of Reeve

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

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

(n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.

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

(v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.

(v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.

(v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

(v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

(v. t.) To wander over or through.