\Rove\ (r[=o]v), v. t. [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.

\Rove\ (r[=o]v), n.
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.

\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.

\Rove\, v. t.
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.

\Rove\, n.
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.