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noun

Rover n.

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."

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

Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.

(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.

(Archery)

(a)

Casual marks at uncertain distances.

(b)

A sort of arrow. (Obs.) "All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt shafts."

At rovers, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting at rovers. See def. 5 (a) above. "Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rover" Quotes from Famous Books

... difficult to make a just appraisal. Okanda, O. K., and Crofter are reported perfectly hardy through minus 20 deg. of cold. Others, hardy and good in all departments, are, Mackenzie, Canoka, Walters, Rover, Calendar and Smyth. Stranger seems not quite so hardy, but Mr. Corsan calls it "the best heartnut grown", splendid in flavor, thin shelled, a little small but with a better than ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 • Various

... OATS yet (the harvest time was still to come with thee) upon casual sands of Avernus? or art thou enacting ROVER (as we would gladlier think) ...

— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb

... ever so much. Mamma reads us the stories. I read the letters, and try to find out the puzzles. I have a pet dog named Rover. He plays hide-and-seek with me; and he will eat corn like a dog I read about in the Post-office of No. 18. My little sister has a pet hen named Tansie, and a boy who lives ...

— Harper's Young People, April 27, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... I was ever a rover, Half stifled by cities or towns, Of nature—and you—a warm lover, Wooing both in despite of your frowns, So you well may imagine my sorrow When fettered and threatened like this— Oh! Marie, dear, pack up to-morrow, And bring ...

— Fleurs de lys and other poems • Arthur Weir

... It's fate knocking at our door. There's not a chance rover can get exemption. He ain't eve got a ...

— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

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