Definitions for unrove

unrove un·rove

Spelling: [uhn-rohv]
IPA: /ʌnˈroʊv/

Unrove is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in unrove (enoruv).

Definitions for unrove

adjective

  1. withdrawn from a block, thimble, etc.

verb (used with object)

  1. Nautical. to withdraw (a rope) from a block, thimble, etc.

verb (used without object)

  1. to unreeve a rope.
  2. (of a rope) to become unreeved.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. simple past tense and past participle of unreeve.

Origin of unrove

First recorded in 1590-1600; un-2 + reeve2

Examples for unrove

Bascomb, in spite of his temper over the giving out of the horse, knelt beside the animal and unrove the cinches.

The schooner's fore and main sheets, that had not been made fast, unrove at the first gust and began to slat wildly in the wind.

Already a man had unrove the fore-signal-halyards, the sailors raised a shout and the coiled rope was thrown.

Sometimes the halyards are unrove from the yard-arm and rounded up to the span-block, with a knot in their end.

The ropes were then unrove and secured to another rock or tree.

But what did you do with the Manilla hemp arter you unrove the hawser?

By the time the halyards were unrove, a wagon-load of men on their way to the beach, drove up, and stopped to look at the Ghost.

In a minute she had unrove them, and the long line lay in a little pile at her feet.

The ropes were unrove, the hands were piped down, and the boats returned to their respective ships.

Employed when lower yards are struck in bad weather to prevent them from swaying about after the trusses are unrove.

Word Value for unrove
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

Similar words for unrove
Word of the day