(1 syl ) To shoot with roving arrows- i e arrows shot at a roving mark, either in height or distance To shoot at rovers To shoot at certain marks of the target so called; to shoot at random without any distinct aim Unbelievers are said by Clobery to `shoot at rovers - Divine Glimpscs, p 4 (1659) Running at rovers Running wild; being without restraint
1. If someone roves about an area or roves an area, they wander around it. roving about the town in the dead of night and seeing something peculiar She became a photographer, roving the world with her camera in her hand. = roam see also roving. An act of wandering about, over, around, or through. A past tense and a past participle of reeve
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"