2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty
twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
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.
For who has power to walk has power to rove.
--Arbuthnot.
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).
Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that
good knight so cunningly didst rove. --Spenser.
Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.
2. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. --Jamieson.
3. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool
or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
Roving the field, I chanced A goodly tree far
distant to behold. --milton.
2. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows
together.
In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt. --Young.
{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.