Roving

Word ROVING
Character 6
Hyphenation rov ing
Pronunciations /ˈɹoʊvɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Roving"

What do we mean by roving?

A continuous strand of loosely twisted and drawn fibers, such as wool, flax, silk, or cotton, ready to be spun. noun

The act of rambling or wandering. noun

Archery as practised by a rover. See rover, 4. noun

The process of giving the first twist to yarn, or of forming a rove. noun

A slightly twisted sliver of carded fiber, as wool or cotton; a rove. noun

The act of one who roves or wanders. noun

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. noun

A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2. noun

A machine for drawing and twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on bobbin for the spinning machine. noun

Wandering freely. adjective

Present participle of rove. verb

A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn. noun

Migratory adjective

Travelling about without any clear destination noun

To shoot with arrows (at).

To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.

To roam or wander through.

To card wool or other fibres.

To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

To draw through an eye or aperture.

To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

To get inexplicably caught doing a dirty deed and and then blame it on someone else. Used mostly for very illegal situations. Urban Dictionary

A word to describe how cheerful or crazy and high the person is. Urban Dictionary

To be fucked up the ass and not even know it. Urban Dictionary

To be unwittingly screwed over by a Machiavellian fat albino or similar character. Urban Dictionary

A tratior fuck who outed an agent of the CIA for political revenge against someone who used actual fact and logic to expose the lie that was the justification for the Iraq war. The result was the end of all CIA WMD operations the agent ever worked on because they ceased to be clandestine and the potential death at the hand of totalitarian regimes of all local CIA contacts the agent ever worked with. Urban Dictionary

To defecate, in reference to former Deputy White House Chief of Staff under the Bush Administration, Karl Rove Urban Dictionary

Fuck yes he should, but he didnt..hes a lame guy. Take us to iraq with those stupid yanks and kill us all, muahhaha Urban Dictionary

North East England expression. To do something aggressively, especially related to making tackles while playing football. Urban Dictionary

A popular Australian comedian, that hosts his own comedy/talk show on channel ten. A popular catch phrase of his includes "WHAT THE!" Urban Dictionary

Chinese Word for love. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Roving

The word "roving" in example sentences

After one more postdoctoral year which I spent in "roving" mode, spending time at Oxford, Harvard and Illinois, in the autumn of 1967 I took up a lectureship at the University of Sussex, where I was to spend the next fifteen years of my career. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Olly's Onions: Obama in roving eye furore skip to main | skip to sidebar ❋ Unknown (2009)

The unteased roving is on the left, the teased is on the right. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But though by concealment he may preserve the unruffled surface of their happiness, yet the longing to be roving is not completely extinguished. ❋ Unknown (1918)

With his glance roving from the quiet man to the quiet dog, he made a few tentative flutters toward the plate of cake. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Throughout the whole way, whether the eye and mind silently indulged in roving, or still better loved talk interrupted that, as it often did, Ellen was in a state of most unmixed and unruffled satisfaction. ❋ Unknown (1892)

His day was spent in roving through the bazar, exclaiming with a loud voice the above word, ❋ Unknown (1856)

Zuma Press In recent decades, the race has become known as a roving party in which participants don pink gorilla suits, storm trooper uniforms -- or, occasionally, go nude -- as they run, walk or stumble their way across the city. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In recent decades, it became known as a roving party in which participants who choose to wear clothes at all don costumes like pink gorilla suits as they run, walk or stumble their way across the city from San Francisco Bay to the waves, or breakers, of the Pacific Ocean. ❋ Geoffrey A. Fowler (2011)

I was very glad to get home to my family, but always loath to leave this special space that British fantasy author Graham Joyce so wisely termed a roving Brigadoon. ❋ Lou Anders (2009)

Organizations and individuals were slapped with so-called roving wiretaps taps that can be placed on an individual or group anywhere, anytime again based on the flimsiest evidence or suspicion. ❋ Earl Ofari Hutchinson (2010)

Organizations and individuals can still be slapped with so-called roving wiretaps (taps that can be placed on an individual or group anywhere, anytime) again based on the flimsiest evidence or suspicion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Jean-Jacques used to rise," he tells us, "with the sun, and spend the whole day in roving through the woods and meadows in search of herbs. ❋ Unknown (1904)

In the tabloid-style piece, James Rainey argued that the so-called roving web “journalist” I use the term very loosely had a big one up on pundits and newsies like Tim Russert, Katie Couric and Larry King in recent days because she allegedly won the contest for nabbing the most provocative presidential quotes to date. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the tabloid-style piece, James Rainey argued that the so-called roving web “journalist” I use the term very loosely had a big one up on pundits and newsies like Tim Russert, ... ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some colonies borrowed from the English the idea of roving courts—courts of oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

Dude, my parents were gonna kill me when they found my stash, but there was no way I was going down before the concert this weekend so I totally [roved] it. [My brother's] grounded til he's [forty]. ❋ Midwestern Son (2005)

E:g; i saw a girl outside [a bar] [lat] night, she looked rather [rovee]. ❋ Aber (2017)

[James-] Man, I think I was [roved] last night- after 9 shots I woke up with a [sore asshole]. Karl- What are looking at me for? ❋ George WTF? Bush (2005)

He totally [roved] that teacher by [publishing] [photoshopped] pictures of the teacher with a goat. ❋ Lawyerbot (2005)

[Benidict] Arnold and [Aldrich] [Ames] were tratior fucks just like Karl Rove. ❋ RealAmerican (2005)

I was going to [get to work] on that [report], but I just finished my [morning coffee] and I need to visit the bathroom and take a Rove. ❋ Recoil42 (2008)

"[john howard] is [gay], [the end]" ❋ The One And Only (2004)

Right [lads], get [rove in] to these fuckers right from the first [whistle] ❋ Kevin Ball (2020)

Rove is funny, [i like] his [catch phrase]. It is "[what the]!" Funny... ❋ Rtwofpc (2007)

I want to make [rove in] this [crub]. I [rove] Katie so much. Must be in rove. She's making rove to her boyfriend ❋ Jspald (2008)

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