Definition:
- (imp. & p. p.) of Reeve
- (v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.
- (v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
- (v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
- (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
- (n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
- (v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
- (v. t.) To wander over or through.
- (v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
- (n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.
Compare rove with other words:
hove vs. rove
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rote vs. rove
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rive vs. rove
roe vs. rove
reve vs. rove
cove vs. rove
rope vs. rove
grove vs. rove
rode vs. rove
prove vs. rove
drove vs. rove
dove vs. rove
rose vs. rove
rove vs. wove
love vs. rove
rave vs. rove
robe vs. rove
prowl vs. rove
rove vs. rovingness
extravagate vs. rove
prowler vs. rove
move vs. rove
rove vs. throstle
cotton vs. rove
rove vs. sliver
roll vs. rove
copper vs. rove
rove vs. washer
clinch vs. rove
rove vs. roving
reeve vs. rove
rove vs. roved
rove vs. rover
furrow vs. rove
earth vs. rove
ridge vs. rove
rove vs. wool
plough vs. rove
fibre vs. rove
card vs. rove
area vs. rove
rove vs. wide
about vs. rove
random vs. rove
rove vs. wander
rove vs. shoot
gadder vs. rove
fig vs. rove
rake vs. rove
rove vs. stroll
roam vs. rove