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Rove [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To wander; to ramble; to range; to go, move or pass without certain direction in any manner, by walking, riding, flying or otherwise.

2. For who has power to walk, has power to rove

Rove [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To wander over; as roving a field; roving the town. This is an elliptical form of expression, for roving over, through or about the town.

2. To draw a thread, string or cord through an eye or aperture.

Rove [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Rove [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.

3. The act of wandering; a ramble.

Rove [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.

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.

3. To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).

Rove [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To draw through an eye or aperture.

2. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.

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

4. To wander over or through.

5. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

Roved [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Rover [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A wanderer; one who rambles about.

2. A fickle or inconstant person.

3. A robber or pirate; a freebooter. [So corsair is from Latin cursus, curro, to run.

4. At rovers, without any particular aim; at random; as shooting at rovers.

5. [I never heard this expression in the United States.]

Rover [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.

2. One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.

3. Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.

4. 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.

5. Casual marks at uncertain distances.

6. A sort of arrow.

Roveredo Encyclopedia Britannica

ROVEREDO (in German sometimes Rofreit), one of the chief industrial cities in South Tyrol, and, after Trent, the chief seat of the Tyrolese silk industry, is situated on the left bank of the Adige (Etsch), in the fertile Val Lagarina, 35 miles north of Verona and IOO miles south of Innsbruck. Though there are several open places within the town, the streets, except in the newer quarters, are narrow, crooked, and uneven. Of the two parish churches, S. Marco dates from the 15th century and Sta Maria del Carmine from 1678. The only other interesting building is the quaint old castle known as Castell Junk. As an active trading town and administrative centre Roveredo is well equipped with commercial, judicial, educational, and benevolent institutions. Though the district between Trent and Verona yields about 120,000 lb of silk annually, the silk industry of Roveredo, introduced in the 16th century, has declined during the last fifty years. The establishments id which the cocoons are unwound (Jilande) are distinct from those in which the silk is spun (Jilatoje). The silk is not woven at Roveredo. Paper and leather are the other chief manufactures of the place; and a brisk trade in southern fruits and red wine is carried on. The population is 8864....

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 21, p. 28
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