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verb (used without object)
1.
to wander about without definite destination; move hither and thither at random, especially over a wide area.
verb (used with object)
2.
to wander over or through; traverse: to rove the woods.
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noun
3.
an act or instance of roving.
Origin:
1490–1500; orig., to shoot at a random target; perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse rāfa to stray; but compare also Old French raver to roam
1490–1500; orig., to shoot at a random target; perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse rāfa to stray; but compare also Old French raver to roam
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verb
a simple past tense and past participle of reeve2.
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 origin
1780–90; of obscure origin
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).
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| rove4 (rəʊv) | |
| —vb | |
| a past tense and past participle of reeve | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
reeve
"steward," O.E. gerefa, of unknown origin and with no known cognates. Not connected to Ger. Graf (see margrave). An Anglo-Saxon official of high rank, having local jurisdiction under a king. Cf. sheriff.
EXPANDrove
"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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