Word Finder - rovers

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(usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.

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One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.

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A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.

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She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.

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A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.

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(Australian Rules football) A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').

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A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.

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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.

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The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.

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A sort of arrow.

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A pirate.

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A pirate ship.

Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions and profitable inventions and discoveries - the best state of that province.

Secondly, within the domain of science itself, properly so called, there were two " kind of rovers " who must be dismissed.

Driving 4x4 Range Rovers through deep mud blindfold was a stern test of trust.

After the departure of the Romans the walls became ruinous or were partly pulled down, perhaps by sea rovers from the north.

The Moroccan system was visited, and in some instances crossed, by various European travellers carried into slavery by the Salli rovers, and was traversed by Rene Caille in 1828 on his journey home from Timbuktu, but the first detailed exploration was made by Gerhard Rohlfs in 1861-1862.

The island of Columba was occasionally plundered by English and other rovers, but in the 16th century it became the property of Sir James Stuart, whose grandson became 2nd earl of Murray by virtue of his marriage to the elder daughter of the 1st earl.

The rovers who first chastened and finally colonized southern England and Normandy were certainly Danes.

They bounced around, they drove lunar rovers, They climbed up hills and rolled over and over.

Within a matter of minutes rovers took the lead with Bellamy pouncing on a handling error by Kelvin Davis.

Temperatures became frayed and a challenge on McNamara by Winter sparked a 14-man scuffle, the Rovers player being booked.

The Land Rovers they produced a million miles away from the luxury Rover saloons, being of a strictly utilitarian nature.

The Greeks of the islands had been accustomed from time immemorial to seafaring; their ships - some as large as frigates - were well armed, to guard against the Barbary pirates and rovers of their own kin; lastly, they had furnished the bulk of the sailors to the Ottoman navy which, now that this recruiting ground was closed, had to be manned hastily with impressed crews of dock-labourers and peasants, many of whom had never seen the sea.

The river, being fairly deep inside the bar, made this a favourite port for the Salli rovers to winter in, but the quantity of alluvial soil brought down threatens to close the port.

The age of rpm giving a. bought a house rovers ever went landscape anytime soon.

More sexual frustration boiling over at The Rovers as Shelly caught Charlie having a lock in with a mystery brunette.

Coventry City Ladies hit rock bottom with a 7-1 home drubbing by Blackburn Rovers.

Doncaster Rovers midfielder Dave Mulligan has been given a clean bill of health after being taken to hospital with a mystery illness last week.

Bob Bond Bob Bond is a celebrated football illustrator, having worked on the original Roy of the Rovers magazine.

A discrete union flag appeared on the Rovers to show a quiet patriotism, followed by the welcome resurrection of MG.

We had little rovers, big Rovers, medium sized Rovers.

But this state of affairs was too insecure even for these rovers, and they would speedily have succumbed had not a refuge been found for them by the fortunate conquest of Jamaica in 1655 by the navy of the English Commonwealth.

We had little Rovers, big Rovers, medium sized Rovers.

Rovers boss Hughes opted for a solitary striker in the shape of Craig Bellamy, who netted in the league clash last month.

Range Rovers are equipped with disk brakes all round.

Within a matter of minutes Rovers took the lead with Bellamy pouncing on a handling error by Kelvin Davis.

A Tranmere Rovers fanatic 's favorite striker just ca n't stop scoring but his affections turn sour when Super Davie scores once too often.

The crime effectiveness of the RUC is determined by other factors than whether armored Land Rovers are replaced by thin-skinned patrol cars.

Down by the Land Rovers a number of unionist politicians milled around making statements to the press.

Jamie Forrester gave Bristol Rovers a first half lead with a well-taken free-kick at Cheltenham.

For example, the Hubble telescope and the Mars Rovers depend upon solar panels for power.

Both his father and uncle, Tommy Farrell, played football for the Irish Football Club Shamrock Rovers during the 1960s.

Norse pirates having made the islands the headquarters of their buccaneering expeditions indifferently against their own Norway and the coasts and isles of Scotland; Harold Haarfager ("Fair Hair") subdued the rovers in 875 and both the Orkneys and Shetlands to Norway.