Vocabulary : Rove to Rowan tree
Rove : of Reeve ;; To draw through an eye or aperture. ;; To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. ;; To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning. ;; A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building. ;; A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving. ;; To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. ;; 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. ;; To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). ;; To wander over or through. ;; To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together. ;; The act of wandering; a ramble.Roved : of Rove
Rover : One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate. ;; One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler. ;; Hence, a fickle, inconstant person. ;; 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. ;; Casual marks at uncertain distances. ;; A sort of arrow.
Roving : of Rove ;; The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine. ;; A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2. ;; The act of one who roves or wanders.
Rovingly : In a wandering manner.
