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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rove \Rove\ (r[=o]v), n.
   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.

Rove \Rove\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Roving}.] [Cf. D. rooven to rob; akin to E. reave. See
   {Reave}, {Rob}.]
   1. To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the
      seas in piracy. [Obs.] --Hakluyt.

   2. 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.

            For who has power to walk has power to rove.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.

   3. (Archery) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle
      of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being
      beyond the point-blank range).

            Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that
            good knight so cunningly didst rove.  --Spenser.

   Syn: To wander; roam; range; ramble stroll.

Rove \Rove\ (r[=o]v), v. t. [perhaps fr. or akin to reeve.]
   1. To draw through an eye or aperture.

   2. To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. --Jamieson.

   3. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool
      or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.

Rove \Rove\, v. t.
   1. To wander over or through.

            Roving the field, I chanced A goodly tree far
            distant to behold.                    --milton.

   2. To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows
      together.

Rove \Rove\, n.
   The act of wandering; a ramble.

         In thy nocturnal rove one moment halt.   --Young.

   {Rove beetle} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
      beetles of the family {Staphylinid[ae]}, having short
      elytra beneath which the wings are folded transversely.
      They are rapid runners, and seldom fly.

Reeve \Reeve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rove} (r?v); p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Reeving}.] [Cf. D. reven. See {Reef}, n. & v. t.] (Naut.)
   To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block,
   thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.

資料來源 : WordNet®

reeve
     n : female ruff
     v 1: pass a rope through; "reeve an opening"
     2: pass through a hole or opening; "reeve a rope"
     3: fasten by passing through a hole or around something
     [also: {rove}]

rove
     v : move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
         search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the
         woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The
         cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from
         one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
         [syn: {roll}, {wander}, {swan}, {stray}, {tramp}, {roam},
          {cast}, {ramble}, {range}, {drift}, {vagabond}]

rove
     See {reeve}