Found 4 hits - Term: rover, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rover \rov"er\, n. d. roover a robber. see rove, v. i.
1. one who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
1913 webster
yet pompey the great deserveth honor more justly for
scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846
sail of ships. --holland.
1913 webster
2. one who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a
rambler.
1913 webster
3. hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
1913 webster
4. croquet a ball which has passed through all the hoops
and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in
play; also, the player of such a ball.
1913 webster
5. archery
a casual marks at uncertain distances. --encyc. brit.
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b a sort of arrow. obs.
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all sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts.
--b. jonson.
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at rovers, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting
at rovers. see def. 5
a above. --addison.
1913 webster
bound down on every side with many bands because
it shall not run at rovers. --robynson
more's
utopia.
1913 webster
see also:
rove at rovers
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
rover
n 1: someone who leads a wandering unsettled life syn: wanderer,
roamer, bird of passage
2: an adult member of the boy scouts movement syn: scouter
see also:
wanderer roamer bird of passage scouter
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
63 moby thesaurus words for "rover":
ahasuerus, ancient mariner, argonaut, blackbeard, captain hook,
captain kidd, flying dutchman, goliard, henry morgan, jean lafitte,
odysseus, oisin, ossian, ulysses, air pirate, airplane hijacker,
bird of passage, buccaneer, bum, corsair, drifter, floater,
freebooter, gad, gadabout, go-about, gypsy, hobo, itinerant, mover,
nomad, peregrinator, peregrine, peripatetic, picaroon, pirate,
privateer, rambler, roamer, rolling stone, runabout, sea dog,
sea king, sea robber, sea rover, sea wolf, skyjacker, sojourner,
straggler, stroller, strolling player, tourist, tramp, traveller,
troubadour, vagabond, vagrant, viking, visitant, wanderer,
wandering minstrel, wandering scholar, wayfarer
- [4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
rover, ar
zip codes: 72860
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