Word Finder - rove

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A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boatbuilding.

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A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and lightly twisted, preparatory to further processing; a roving.

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The act of wandering; a ramble.

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To shoot with arrows (at).

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To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.

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To roam or wander through.

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To card wool or other fibres.

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

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To draw through an eye or aperture.

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

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To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.

Two more helicopters landed at different helipads while the searchlights continued to rove the compound.

The rove yarn is now ready for the spinning frame, where a further draft of about eight is given.

I think Rove will walk, thumbing his nose at the pile of corpses he helped to create.

When the ice breaks up in spring they always leave their embankments, and rove about until a little before the fall of the leaf, when they return to their old habitations, and lay in their winter stock of wood.

Each layer of rove increases the diameter of the material on the bobbin shank; hence, at the beginning of each layer, the speed of the bobbin must be increased, and kept at this increased speed for the whole traverse from top to bottom or vice versa.

Bush calls Rove, depending on his mood, ' Boy Genius ' or ' Turd Blossom '.

Depending mainly for food on the seeds of conifers, the movements of crossbills are irregular beyond those of most birds, and they would seem to rove in any direction and at any season in quest of their staple sustenance.

The doublings play a very important part in the appearance of the ultimate rove and yarn, for the chief reason for doubling threads or slivers is to minimize irregularities of thickness and of colour in the material.

It is essential that the bobbin should have such a motion, because the delivery of the sliver and the speed of the flyer are constant for a given size of rove, whereas the layers of rove on the bobbin increase in length as the bobbin fills.

What they did was to rove about in hordes, plundering or levying blackmail.

Father Brown letting his eye rove around in a rather absent-minded fashion.

The halving becket, often called the doubling or double bag becket, is put on and the cod line rove.

Immediately after the election, the Republican campaign team, led by Karl Rove, emerged resplendent, their methods vindicated.

I think rove will walk, thumbing his nose at the pile of corpses he helped to create.

Bush calls rove, depending on his mood, ' Boy Genius ' or ' Turd Blossom ' .

Bush could no more turn himself into a man of the people than he could turn Karl rove into a frog.

For when the butt is set up men need not rove, but except the white be placed men cannot level.

Bush could no more turn himself into a man of the people than he could turn Karl Rove into a frog.

A typical rove beetle with short elytra, leaving most of the abdomen exposed.

It is not uncommon to find zoo lb to 300 lb rove yarn, while the weight occasionally reaches 450 lb per spyndle.