Rover : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Rover	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Rover
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rover n someone who leads a wandering unsettled life [syn: wanderer, roamer, rover, bird of passage] an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement Synonym(s): rover, scouter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rover \Rov"er\, n. [D. roover a robber. See {Rove}, v. i.] 1. One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate. Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. --Holland. 2. One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler. 3. Hence, a fickle, inconstant person. 4. (Croquet) 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. 5. (Archery) (a) Casual marks at uncertain distances. --Encyc. Brit. (b) A sort of arrow. [Obs.] All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts. --B. Jonson. {At rovers}, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting at rovers. See def. 5 (a) above. --Addison. Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Rover, AR Zip code(s): 72860