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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reeve \Reeve\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rove} (r?v); p. pr. & vb. n. {Reeving}.] [Cf. D. reven. See {Reef}, noun & verb (used with an object)] (Naut.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rove \Rove\, verb (used with an object)
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rove \Rove\, noun 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rove \Rove\ (r[=o]v), verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rove \Rove\ (r[=o]v), noun
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rove \Rove\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reeve
noun: female ruff
verb
1: pass a rope through; "reeve an opening"
2: pass through a hole or opening; "reeve a rope"
3: fasten by passing through a hole or around something [also: {rove}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rove
verb: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: {roll}, {wander}, {swan}, {stray}, {tramp}, {roam}, {cast}, {ramble}, {range}, {drift}, {vagabond}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rove See {reeve}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "rove": 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
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