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Rove (r&ō;v), v. t. [perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.] 1. To draw through an eye or aperture.
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2. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. Jamieson.
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3. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
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Rove (r&ō;v), n. 1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
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2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
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Rove, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Roving.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See Reave, Rob.] 1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] Hakluyt.
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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.
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For who has power to walk has power to rove. Arbuthnot.
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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).
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Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart
At that good knight so cunningly didst rove. Spenser.
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Syn. -- To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.
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Rove, v. t. 1. To wander over or through.
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Roving the field, I chanced
A goodly tree far distant to behold. milton.
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2. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
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Rove, n. The act of wandering; a ramble.
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In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt. Young.
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Rove beetle (Zo&ö;l.), any one of numerous species of beetles of the family Staphylinidæ, having short elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely. They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.
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