Available Definitions:
1) n. - 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.
2) n. - A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
3) n. - The act of one who roves or wanders.
4) n. - A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
5) n. - A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
6) v. i. - To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
7) v. i. - Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
8) v. i. - To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
9) v. t. - To wander over or through.
10) v. t. - To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
11) n. - The act of wandering; a ramble.