Associations to the word «Rove»

ROVE, verb. (obsolete) (intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).

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

ROVE, verb. (transitive) To roam or wander through.

ROVE, verb. (transitive) To card wool or other fibres.

ROVE, verb. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

ROVE, verb. To draw through an eye or aperture.

ROVE, verb. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

ROVE, verb. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

ROVE, noun. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.

ROVE, noun. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.

ROVE, noun. The act of wandering; a ramble.

ROVE, verb. Simple past tense of rive

ROVE BEETLE, noun. Any of various carnivorous or scavenging beetles of the family Staphylinidae that are often found in decaying matter and have slender bodies and short wing covers.

ROVE BEETLES, noun. Plural of rove beetle

ROVE, verb. Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town".