rover
Definitions
noun
A randomly selected target.
"By my hilt! no. There was little Robby Withstaff, and Andrew Salblaster, and Wat Alspaye, who broke the neck of the German. Mon Dieu! what men they were! Take them how you would, at long butts or short, hoyles, rounds, or rovers, better bowmen never twirled a shaft over their thumb-nails.
One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
But these islands, undisturbed for years, relapsed into their previous obscurity; and it is only recently that anything has been known concerning them. Once in the course of a half century, to be sure, some adventurous rover would break in upon their peaceful repose. and astonished at the unusual scene, would be almost tempted to claim the merit of a new discovery.
I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way, where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.
A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
She is a rover and dislikes any sort of ties, physical or emotional.
Give him the word, that I'm not a rover, and tell him that his lonely days are over.
A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
September 19, 2005, Dave Lane, Mars Exploration Rover "OPPORTUNITY" NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is currently traveling southward over a pavement of outcrop dubbed the "Erebus Highway." "Erebus Crater," the rover's next target, lies less than 100 meters (328 feet) south of its current position
A remotely-operated vehicle.
noun
A pirate.
Diogenes will deſpiſe thee for all that, who being expoſed and offered to ſale by the rovers and theeves that tooke him, cried and proclaimed himſelfe aloud: Who will buy a maſter who?
A pirate ship.
The first was this: our ship making her course towards the Canary Islands, or rather between those islands and the African shore, was surprised in the grey of the morning by a Turkish rover of Sallee, who gave chase to us with all the sail she could make.
noun
Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.
A member of the senior section of the Boy Scout movement catering for men of age 18 upwards, now disbanded.