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ROVING
mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering
(adjective) migratory; “a restless mobile society”; “the nomadic habits of the Bedouins”; “believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future”; “wandering tribes”
wandering, roving, vagabondage
(noun) travelling about without any clear destination; “she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
roving (comparative more roving, superlative most roving)
wandering freely.
Synonyms
• wandering
Verb
roving
present participle of rove
Noun
roving (countable and uncountable, plural rovings)
A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn.
The process of giving the first twist to yarn.
Anagrams
• voring
Source: Wiktionary
Rov"ing, n.
1. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2. Roving frame, Roving machine, a machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine.
Rov"ing, n.
Definition: The act of one who roves or wanders.
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
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