Rove
verb — past tense: roved ; past participle: roved ; present participle: roving ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To wander about, to wander; go from place to place and not settle down) ដើរចរច្រប់, អារ៉ប់, ក្រវែល, ដើរក្រឡឹង, ធ្វើជាជនអនាថា, ដើរចរច្រប់, មិនឆ្ពោះទៅទីកន្លែងណា, ដើរសុសសព្វ
Example: To rove all over the world.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
- 2.
- A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
- 3.
- The act of wandering; a ramble.
verb — past tense: roved ; past participle: roved ; present participle: roving ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To draw through an eye or aperture.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) 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.
- 6.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
- 7.
- (TRANSITIVE) To wander over or through.
- 8.
- (TRANSITIVE) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.