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One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.
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v. i.
One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
n.
One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
n.
The act of one who roves or wanders.
v. t.
To wander over or through.
n.
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.
v. i.
To run or rove to and fro.
v. i.
To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
v. i.
Casual marks at uncertain distances.
n.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
v. i.
To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
v. i.
One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
v. i.
A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
v. i.
A sort of arrow.
n.
The act of wandering; a ramble.
v. i.
To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
v. i.
Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
n.
A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
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