Rove

Verb

 * 1)  To shoot with arrows (at).
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
 * And thou [...] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue [...].
 * 1)  To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
 * 2) * 1912:, , Chapter 1
 * Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him.
 * 1)  To card wool or other fibres.

Verb
rove



Thesaurus
Wanderjahr, afoot and lighthearted, bat around, bum, bumming, count ties, discursion, divagate, divagation, drift, drifting, err, errantry, excurse, flit, flitting, gad, gad about, gadding, gallivant, go about, go adrift, go astray, go the rounds, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, hoboism, itineracy, itinerancy, jaunt, knock about, knock around, meander, mooch, nomadism, nomadize, peregrinate, peregrination, pererrate, pererration, prowl, ramble, rambling, range, roam, roaming, roving, run about, saunter, snake, straggle, stray, straying, stroll, traipse, traipsing, tramp, twist, twist and turn, vagabond, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagabondize, vagrancy, walk the tracks, wander, wandering, wanderlust, wayfare, wayfaring, wind

Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin; perhaps a dialectal form of rave:.

Etymology 2
Inflected forms.

Verb

 * German: herumtreiben, umherschweifen

Derived terms

 * rover
 * roved
 * roving

Related terms

 * reeve

Anagrams

 * over
 * vore

Anagrams

 * over, Voer, voer