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roving

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rove 1  (rv)
v. roved, rov·ing, roves
v.intr.
To wander about at random, especially over a wide area; roam.
v.tr.
To roam or wander around, over, or through. See Synonyms at wander.
n.
An act of wandering about, over, around, or through.

[Middle English roven, to shoot arrows at a mark.]

rove 2  (rv)
tr.v. roved, rov·ing, roves
1. To card (wool).
2. To put (fibers) through an eye or opening.
3. To stretch and twist (fibers) before spinning; ravel out.
n.
A slightly twisted and extended fiber or sliver.

[Origin unknown.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.rovingroving - travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him"
travel, traveling, travelling - the act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel"
drifting - aimless wandering from place to place
Adj.1.rovingroving - migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
unsettled - not settled or established; "an unsettled lifestyle"
Translations
Spanish roving [ˈrəuvɪŋ] adj (= wandering) → errante; [salesman] → ambulante; [reporter] → volante
French roving [ˈrəuvɪŋ] adj [life] → vagabond(e)
Italian roving [ˈrəuvɪŋ] adj [life] → itinerante

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The third day brought a diversion in the shape of a trap by a roving party of the Sheriff's men.
This explains the welcome given by Chinese Emperors and Caliphs of Bagdad to all roving minstrels in whose immortality, like flies in amber, they are caught.
Take these, Son of Maia, and tend the wild roving, horned oxen and horses and patient mules.
 
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