Rover
['rovɚ]
Definition
(v. i.) One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
(v. i.) One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
(v. i.) Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) Casual marks at uncertain distances.
(v. i.) A sort of arrow.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rambler, wanderer, straggler, bird of passage.
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Examples
- No one had ever considered the possibility of eating pork, for in those days pigs were pets, and just as every family today has its dog Rover, so then, every family had its pig Scraps. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By gradual steps, initiated in Starley’s Rover in 1880, (see Fig. 183), the high front wheel was reduced in size, until the proportions of the modern Safety (Fig. 184) have been obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Besides, he could not bind all that he had in his nature--the rover, the aspirant, the poet, the priest--in the limits of a single passion. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Look at his wings, said he, he reminds me rather of a West Indian insect; one does not often see so large and gay a night-rover in England; there! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But seventy-one, though nothing at home, is a high figure for a rover. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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