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rove1

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–verb (used without object)

1.	to wander about without definite destination; move hither and thither at random, esp. over a wide area.

–verb (used with object)

2.	to wander over or through; traverse: to rove the woods.

–noun

3.	an act or instance of roving.

[Origin: 1490–1500; orig., to shoot at a random target; perh. < Scand; cf. ON rāfa to stray; but cf. also OF raver to roam

]

—Synonyms 1. stroll, amble, stray. See roam.

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–verb

a pt. and pp. of reeve².

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–verb (used with object)

1.	to form (slivers of wool, cotton, etc.) into slightly twisted strands in a preparatory process of spinning.

2.	to draw fibers or the like through an eye or other small opening.

3.	to attenuate, compress, and twist slightly in carding.

–noun

4.	British. roving².

[Origin: 1780–90; of obscure orig.

]

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–verb (used with object), rove or reeved, ro·ven or reeved, reev·ing. Nautical.

1.	to pass (a rope or the like) through a hole, ring, or the like.

2.	to fasten by placing through or around something.

3.	to pass a rope through (the swallow of a block).

[Origin: 1620–30; < D reven to reef; see reef²

]

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tr.v. reeved or rove (rōv), reev·ing, reeves Nautical

To pass (a rope or rod) through a hole, ring, pulley, or block.
To fasten by passing through or around.
To pass a rope or rod through (a hole, ring, pulley, or block).

[Origin unknown.]

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rove¹ Audio Help   (rōv) Pronunciation Key
v.   roved, rov·ing, roves

v.   intr.
To wander about at random, especially over a wide area; roam.

v.   tr.
To roam or wander around, over, or through. See Synonyms at wander.

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

[Middle English roven, to shoot arrows at a mark.]

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rove² Audio Help (rōv) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. roved, rov·ing, roves

To card (wool).
To put (fibers) through an eye or opening.
To stretch and twist (fibers) before spinning; ravel out.

n. A slightly twisted and extended fiber or sliver.

[Origin unknown.]

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rove³ Audio Help (rōv) Pronunciation Key
v. Nautical
A past tense and a past participle of reeve².

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rove

"to wander with no fixed destination," 1536, possibly a Midlands dialectal variant of northern Eng. and Scottish rave "to wander, stray," from M.E. raven, probably from O.N. rafa "to wander, rove." Infl. by rover (q.v.). Earliest sense was "to shoot arrows at a mark selected at pleasure or at random" (1474).

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rove
verb
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 town"

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rove [rəuv] verb

to wander; to roam
Example: He roved (through) the streets.

Arabic:	يَطوف، يَجول
Chinese (Simplified):	漫游，流浪
Chinese (Traditional):	漫遊，流浪
Czech:	toulat se
Danish:	strejfe (om)
Dutch:	zwerven
Estonian:	hulkuma
Finnish:	harhailla
French:	vagabonder
German:	schweifen
Greek:	περιπλανιέμαι
Hungarian:	barangol
Icelandic:	ráfa (um)
Indonesian:	mengembara
Italian:	vagare, vagabondare

Japanese:	うろつく
Korean:	배회하다, 헤매다
Latvian:	klejot; klaiņot
Lithuanian:	bastytis, klajoti
Norwegian:	vandre omkring, flakke, streife
Polish:	włóczyć się
Portuguese (Brazil):	vaguear
Portuguese (Portugal):	vaguear
Romanian:	a hoinări
Russian:	бродить
Slovak:	túlať sa
Slovenian:	klatiti se
Spanish:	vagar, errar
Swedish:	ströva omkring, vandra
Turkish:	aylak aylak dolaşmak, başıboş gezinmek

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Rove

Reave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reaved, Reft, or Raft(obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Reaving.] [AS. re['a]fian, from re['a]f spoil, plunder, clothing, re['o]fan to break (cf. bire['o]fan to deprive of); akin to G. rauben to rob, Icel. raufa to rob, rj[=u]fa to break, violate, Goth. bir['a]ubon to despoil, L. rumpere to break; cf. Skr. lup to break. [root]114. Cf. Bereave, Rob, v. t., Robe, Rove, v. t., Rupture.] To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic]. "To reave his life." --Spenser.

He golden apples raft of the dragon. --Chaucer.

By privy stratagem my life at home. --Chapman.

To reave the orphan of his patrimony. --Shak.

The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. --Tennyson.

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Rove

Reeve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rove (r?v); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeving.] [Cf. D. reven. See Reef, n. & v. t.] (Naut.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.

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Rove

Rove\ (r[=o]v), v. t. [perhaps fr. 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.

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Rove

Rove\ (r[=o]v), 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.

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Rove\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roved; p. pr. & vb. n. Roving.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See Reave, Rob.]

1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] --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. --Arbuthnot.

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. --Spenser.

Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.

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