roving

Meaning of roving

verb
  1. To shoot with arrows (at).
  2. To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area.
  3. To roam or wander through.
  4. To card wool or other fibres.
  5. To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  6. To draw through an eye or aperture.
  7. To plough into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
  8. To practice robbery on the seas; to voyage about on the seas as a pirate.
noun
  1. A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn.
  2. The process of giving the first twist to yarn.
adjective
  1. Wandering freely.
    His roving eyes never focused on anything specific.

Information about roving

  • The plural form of roving is: rovings.
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Hyphenation of roving

rov-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • roving is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

roving synonyms

Meaning mobile:

mobile, nomadic, peregrine, wandering

Meaning wandering:

wandering, vagabondage

Translation of roving

Words that rhyme with roving

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