Dictionary Entry
rove
rove is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Reeve. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1past tense & past participle
of Reeve
- 2transitive verb
To draw through an eye or aperture.
- 3transitive verb
To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
- 4transitive verb
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
- 5noun
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
- 6noun
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
- 7intransitive verb
To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
- 8intransitive verb
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.
- 9intransitive verb
To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
- 10transitive verb
To wander over or through.
- 11transitive verb
To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
- 12noun
The act of wandering; a ramble.
- 13verb
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
"The gypsies roamed the woods"
"roving vagabonds"
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