ROVE

roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond

(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”

REEVE

reeve

(verb) fasten by passing through a hole or around something

reeve

(verb) pass through a hole or opening; “reeve a rope”

reeve

(verb) pass a rope through; “reeve an opening”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

rove (third-person singular simple present roves, present participle roving, simple past and past participle roved)

(obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).

(intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.

(transitive) To roam or wander through.

(transitive) To card wool or other fibres.

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

To draw through an eye or aperture.

To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

Noun

rove (plural roves)

A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.

A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.

The act of wandering; a ramble.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

rove

simple past tense of rive

simple past tense of reeve

Anagrams

• -vore, Over, Vore, over, over-, vore

Source: Wiktionary

Rove, v. t. Etym: [perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.]

1. To draw through an eye or aperture.

2. To draw out into falkes; to card, as wool. Jamieson.

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

Rove, 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

Rove, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roved; p. pr. & vb. n. Roving.] Etym: [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)

Definition: 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 Venusson that with thy cruel dart At that good knoght cunningly didst rove. Spenser.

Syn.

– To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.

Rove, v. t.

1. To wander over or through. Roving the field, i chanced A goodly tree far distant to behold. milton.

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

Rove, n.

Definition: The act of wandering; a ramble. In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt. Young. Rove beetle (Zoöl.), 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.

REEVE

Reeve (rv), n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The female of the ruff.

Reeve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rove (rv); p. pr. & vb. n. Reeving.] Etym: [Cf. D. reven. See Reef, n. & v. t.] (Naut.)

Definition: To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.

Reeve, n. Etym: [OE. reve, AS. ger. Cf. Sheriff.]

Definition: an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc. Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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