Found 3 items, similar to rove.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: rove
mengembara, menjelajahi, ngembara
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: rove
reeve
n : female ruff
v 1: pass a rope through;
“reeve an opening”
2: pass through a hole or opening;
“reeve a rope”
3: fasten by passing through a hole or around something
[also:
rove]
rove
v : 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”
[syn:
roll,
wander,
swan,
stray,
tramp,
roam,
cast,
ramble,
range,
drift,
vagabond]
rove
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reeve
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Rove
Reeve
\Reeve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Rove (r?v); p. pr. & vb. n.
Reeving.] [Cf. D. reven. See
Reef, n. & v. t.] (Naut.)
To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block,
thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
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Rove
\Rove\, v. t.
1. To wander over or through.
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Roving the field, I chanced
A goodly tree far distant to behold. --milton.
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2. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows
together.
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Rove
\Rove\, n.
The act of wandering; a ramble.
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In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt. --Young.
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Rove beetle (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
beetles of the family
Staphylinid[ae], having short
elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely.
They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.
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Rove
\Rove\ (r[=o]v), v. t. [perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.]
1. To draw through an eye or aperture.
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2. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. --Jamieson.
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3. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool
or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
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Rove
\Rove\ (r[=o]v), n.
1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched
in boat building.
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2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty
twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
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Rove
\Rove\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Roved; p. pr. & vb. n.
Roving.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See
Reave,
Rob.]
1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the
seas in piracy. [Obs.] --Hakluyt.
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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.
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For who has power to walk has power to rove.
--Arbuthnot.
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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).
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Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart
At that good knight so cunningly didst rove.
--Spenser.
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Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.
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