| Pronunciation: | | 'rowving
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| Matching Terms: | | rovingly, rovingness
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- [n] travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
- [adj] (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
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| | Synonyms: | | mobile, nomadic, peregrine, unsettled, vagabondage, wandering, wandering |
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| | See Also: | | drifting, peregrination |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Rov"ing\, n.
1. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted
sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine
for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly
twisted; a rove. See 2d {Rove}, 2.
{Roving frame}, {Roving machine}, a machine for drawing and
twisting roves and twisting roves and winding them on
bobbin for the spinning machine.
\Rov"ing\, n.
The act of one who roves or wanders.
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