roving : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: roving	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for roving
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
roving adj migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" Synonym(s): mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering n travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" Synonym(s): wandering, roving, vagabondage
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roving \Rov"ing\, n. The act of one who roves or wanders.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rove \Rove\, v. i. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roving \Rov"ing\, n. 1. 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. 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d {Rove}, 2. {Roving frame}, {Roving machine}, a machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine.