to rove

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extravagate
Simple past of rive
To shoot with arrows (at)

And thou that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue .

{v} to ramble, wander, range, walk about
Past tense of reeve
To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool
To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area
To card wool or other fibres
The act of wandering; a ramble
(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
a stroll, ramble; a wandering
To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range)
{i} cotton or wool fiber that has been stretched and twisted prior to being spun into yarn
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
To draw through an eye or aperture
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"
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving
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
A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building
To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy
To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning
{f} wander aimlessly, roam, meander; stretch and twist fibers to prepare them for spinning
To wander over or through
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