rove
/ɹoʊv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
verb
To draw through an eye or aperture.
Example Sentences
- "And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […]"
- "Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him."
- "And a rovin’, a rovin’, a rovin’ I'll go / For a pair of brown eyes"
- "Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold."
- "The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England."
- "Although both [flax and wool] must be roved and spun upon similar principles, each requires peculiar modifications in its machinery."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹoʊv/
- British English: /ɹəʊv/