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Rover Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Rover? [n] an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement [n] someone who leads a wandering unsettled life Synonyms \| Synonyms for Rover: bird of passage \| roamer \| scouter \| wanderer Related Terms \| Find terms related to Rover: See Also \| boy scout \| drifter \| floater \| nomad \| traveler \| traveller \| vagabond \| vagrant Rover In Webster's Dictionary \Rov"er\, n. [D. roover a robber. See {Rove}, v. i.] 1. One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate. Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. --Holland. 2. One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler. 3. Hence, a fickle, inconstant person. 4. (Croquet) 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. 5. (Archery) (a) Casual marks at uncertain distances. --Encyc. Brit. (b) A sort of arrow. [Obs.] All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts. --B. Jonson. {At rovers}, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting at rovers. See def. 5 (a) above. --Addison. Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers. --Robynson (More's Utopia).

Rover Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Rover?

[n] an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
[n] someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

Synonyms | Synonyms for Rover: bird of passage | roamer | scouter | wanderer

Related Terms | Find terms related to Rover:

Rover In Webster's Dictionary

\Rov"er\, n. [D. roover a robber. See {Rove}, v. i.]
1. One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.

         Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for
         scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846
         sail of ships.                        --Holland.

2. One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a
   rambler.

3. Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.

4. (Croquet) 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.

5. (Archery)
   (a) Casual marks at uncertain distances. --Encyc. Brit.
   (b) A sort of arrow. [Obs.]

             All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts.
                                               --B. Jonson.

{At rovers}, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting
   at rovers. See def. 5
   (a) above. --Addison.

             Bound down on every side with many bands because
             it shall not run at rovers.       --Robynson
                                               (More's
                                               Utopia).

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