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.
Definitions
- past tense & past participle. of Reeve
- transitive verb. To draw through an eye or aperture.
- transitive verb. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
- transitive verb. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
- noun. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
- noun. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
- intransitive verb. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
- intransitive 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.
- intransitive 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).
- transitive verb. To wander over or through.
- transitive verb. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
- noun. The act of wandering; a ramble.
- verb. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
"The gypsies roamed the woods"
"roving vagabonds"
Synonyms
cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander
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