Definition of rove

• 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.