Rove \Rove\ (r[=o]v), n.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Rove \Rove\ (r[=o]v), v. t. [perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.]

1. To draw through an eye or aperture.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Rove \Rove\, v. t.

1. To wander over or through.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Rove \Rove\, n. The act of wandering; a ramble.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)