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Roving   /rˈoʊvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Rove  v. t.  
1.
To draw through an eye or aperture.
2.
To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
3.
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.


Rove  v. t.  
1.
To wander over or through. "Roving the field, I chanced A goodly tree far distant to behold."
2.
To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.


Rove  v. i.  (past & past part. roved; pres. part. roving)  
1.
To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. (Obs.)
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."
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."
Synonyms: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.


noun
Roving  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.


Roving  n.  The act of one who roves or wanders.





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"Roving" Quotes from Famous Books



... feel badly about it. I know how you all felt toward me. But I'm on a roving commission. I have no wireless apparatus and no definite instructions. I've been lampooned and ridiculed in the papers, and I'm going to give them my answer—that is, as I said, if I'm any good. If I'm not I'll ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson
... the caves and was roving amongst them, he heard steps retreating before him and an imperfect rustling sound. He gave pursuit, and caught a breathless woman who besought him not to deliver ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... determined. "We'll stop there to break the news. Then we'll be wedded, you and I, according to the custom of your people. Our honeymoon—years of it—will be spent in the Nomad, roving the universe. Mado'll agree, I know. Wanderers of the heavens we'll be, Ora. But we'll have each other; and when we've—you've—had enough of it, I'll be ready to settle down. Anywhere you say. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... Those bulging brief-cases had apparently contained the dearest of his roving brother's possessions, judging from the way Rupert had fussed if they were a ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton
... Wahpanucka of the Delawares did not agree. So the little band of Delawares continued rambling until they reached the Choctaw Nation, where they again tried to make terms with the Chief of the tribe. Evidently no agreement was reached between that Chief and Wahpanucka, for the Delawares continued their roving until they reached the Chickasaw Nation, ...
— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard


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