Rove /(rōv)/

1. To draw through an eye or aperture.
2. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
3. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.

imp. & p. p. Roved; p. pr. & vb. n. Roving

1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.]
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.

   For who has power to walk has power to rove.

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

   Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove.

1. To wander over or through.

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

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

1. The act of wandering; a ramble.

   In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.