Rove

Quick meaning: Rove is a verb meaning (intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.

Meaning

(intransitive) To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To roam or wander through.
2. (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.
3. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
4. To draw through an eye or aperture.
5. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
6. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).

Example Sentences

pirates, roving up and downe the sea

In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.

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

And a rovin’, a rovin’, a rovin’ I'll go / For a pair of brown eyes

Word Forms

• roves
• roving
• roved

Synonyms for rove

Depending on context, synonyms include cast, drift, ramble, vagabond, range, roam.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drift, cast, ramble, range, wander, roam.

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