1. roving - Noun
2. roving - Adjective
3. roving - Verb
5. roving - Adjective Satellite
of Rove
The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
The act of one who roves or wanders.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThey successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property. John Steinbeck
You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art. Toni Morrison
He was a shiftless person, roving and magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crased. John Aubrey
I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target. Kenneth Williams
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up. Elinor Lipman
If you have a roving eye, it's no use having the other one fixed on Heaven. Irish Proverb