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 ro

imp. & p. p.
of Reeve

v. t.
To draw through an eye or aperture.

v. t.
To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.

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

n.
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

n.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.

v. i.
To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).

v. t.
To wander over or through.

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

n.
The act of wandering; a ramble.

Rove

Rove

For who has power to walk has power to rove.

Fair Venusson that with thy cruel dart At that good knoght cunningly didst rove.

Rove

Roving the field, i chanced A goodly tree far distant to behold.

Rove

In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.

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

To practice robbery on the seas;to wander about on the seas in piracy.

To wander over or through.

The act of wandering; a ramble.