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Roving   /rˈoʊvɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Rove  v. t.  
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.


Rove  v. t.  
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.


Rove  v. i.  (past & past part. roved; pres. part. 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.
(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). "Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove."
Synonyms: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.


noun
Roving  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  n.  The act of one who roves or wanders.





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"Roving" Quotes from Famous Books



... playmate in the boy-and-girl days, her playmate, too,—he had wanted to marry her for years, ever since Vick's freshman year when he had made them a visit at the Farm. He had grown very heavy since then,—time which he had spent roving about in odd corners of the earth. As he stood there, his head bent mockingly before the two, Isabelle felt herself Queen once more, the—American woman who, having surveyed all, and dominated all within the compass of her little ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... knocking or ringing was dispensed with for the sufficient reason that there was neither bell nor knocker. We entered by the open door and walked along a paved passage, which, was evidently not held as sacred as it should have been by the roving fowls; looked in at the great dark kitchen, where beside the Gothic arch of the broad chimney was some ruinous clockwork mechanism for turning the spit, which probably did turn to good purpose when powdered wigs were worn; then ascended ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker
... just a little towards my lady deferentially, his head just a little on one side, lending her an ear. By the gait of him he is looking another way. Yes; for now my lady turns, he turns too, and they halt front to front; his pallid visage half averted from her observation, his glittering eyes roving with bold stealth over the populous garden, and his thin-lipped, scarlet mouth working and twisting incessantly in the covert of ...
— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr
... a day of days for Esther. First the delightful roving walk, and cutting the greens, which were bestowed in a cart that attended them; then the wonderful novelty of dressing the house. Esther had never seen anything of the kind before, which did not hinder her, ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner
... as night-glasses, for, by their aid, the sight of man is raised nearly to a par with that of night-roving animals; therefore, a sportsman would find them of great service when watching for game at night. A small and inexpensive glass is as useful for this purpose as a large one; but there is a considerable difference between the ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton


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