Rove

(imp. & p. p.) of Reeve

(v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.

(v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.

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

(n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.

(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.

(v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.

(v. i.) 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.

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

(v. t.) To wander over or through.

(v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.

(n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.

塞西尔编辑

• Thus far the reddleman had been tolerably successful in his rude contrivances for keeping down Wildeve's inclination to rove in the evening. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• With anxiety I watched his eye rove over the gay stores: he fixed on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye, and a superb pink satin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• No lady would rove about the heath at all hours of the day and night as she does. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The little girls had a private tea party, and Ted roved among the edibles at his own sweet will. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• While caressing the spaniel, his eye roved over the papers and books just replaced; it settled on the religious tract. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• For a moment her eyes roved wildly about the scene beneath her. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• You are that restless and that roving-- Yes! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It covered carding, drawing, and roving machines for use in preparing silk, cotton, flax, and wool for spinning. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• You should not be roving about now; it looks very ill. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• His friend, Milt Adams, went West with quenchless zest for that kind of roving life and aimless adventure of which the serious minded Edison had already had more than enough. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• You are a strange child, Miss Jane, she said, as she looked down at me; a little roving, solitary thing: and you are going to school, I suppose? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I'm roving about so, it's impossible to be regular, you know. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The halt in that roving, restless life was inexpressibly soothing and pleasant to her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

校对:马里恩