Rove

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To shoot with arrows (at).

   “And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]”

2. fiil To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.

   “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.”

3. fiil To roam or wander through.

   “Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold.”

4. fiil To card wool or other fibres.

   “Although both [flax and wool] must be roved and spun upon similar principles, each requires peculiar modifications in its machinery.”

5. fiil To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
6. fiil To draw through an eye or aperture.
7. fiil To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
8. fiil To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

   “pirates, roving up and downe the sea”

9. isim A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.
10. isim A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.
11. isim The act of wandering; a ramble.

    “In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.”

12. fiil simple past of rive
13. fiil simple past of reeve
14. özel isim A surname