ROVES
Verb
roves
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rove
Anagrams
• Vores, overs, servo, verso, vores
Source: Wiktionary
ROVE
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