roving

[ro·ving]

Roving things or people are in motion, like a roving reporter who travels to cover stories instead of staying put at her desk.

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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.

Noun
travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"

Adjective S.
(of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Rove

n.
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.

n.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.

n.
The act of one who roves or wanders.


Roving

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.

Roving

Rov"ing, n. The act of one who roves or wanders.

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.

The act of one who roves or wanders.

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