Definitions for roves

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roves rove

Spelling: [rohv]

IPA: /roʊv/

Roves is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in roves (eorsv).

Definitions for roves

noun

1. an act or instance of roving.
2. British. roving2 .

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of reeve2 .

verb (used with object)

1. to wander over or through; traverse:
2. to form (slivers of wool, cotton, etc.) into slightly twisted strands in a preparatory process of spinning.
3. to draw fibers or the like through an eye or other small opening.
4. to attenuate, compress, and twist slightly in carding.
5. to pass (a rope or the like) through a hole, ring, or the like.
6. to fasten by placing through or around something.
7. to pass a rope through (the swallow of a block).

verb (used without object)

1. to wander about without definite destination; move hither and thither at random, especially over a wide area.

Origin of roves

1490-1500; orig., to shoot at a random target; perhaps Scandinavian; compare Old Norse rāfa to stray; but compare also Old French raver to roam

Examples for roves

As I was about to speak, however, he said suddenly: "Let's rove, man."

Either way, rove certainly had a better night than last time around.

rove himself appeared on Fox News Sunday to defend his comment.

But he didn't leave it until he had rove the new rope, and he got back all right.

So rove—I will give him this much—knows the workings of the fearful, reactionary mind.

Never once did he allow his eyes to rove over to the table opposite.

rove does not know how non-conservatives think about these things.

They do not by any means destroy the land over which they rove.

“It was all for nothing; rove wanted the issue buried,” Wurmser said.

Thus all concentrates: let us not rove; let us sit at home with the cause.