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roving

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1. roving - Noun

2. roving - Adjective

3. roving - Verb

5. roving - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

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They 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

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